A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

True love is an act of total surrender.

Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready.

Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back.