How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.

I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.

'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.

When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?

Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.