Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.