Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

You have a personal legend to fulfil, period. It is of no matter if others support you, or criticise you, ignore or tolerate you. You are doing that because that is your destiny on this earth, and the source of any joy.

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.