In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.