Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

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.

Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain... It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed.

Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Each day is a little bit of history