I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die..

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips..

Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them..

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn….

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be..

I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger..

[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years..

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of ….

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough..

I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was ….

I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations..

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom..

Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper co….

Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don….

You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its….

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty char….

There are people you remember and people you dream of..

I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that c….

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words..

He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you ….

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when w….