We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.