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.

Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.

Love simply is. [...] Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.