The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.

Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.

And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants

What made you fall in love with a prostitute?” “I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.

Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony.