Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)

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

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

Sometimes neuroscientists ask impossible questions.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

A big mistake in politics is to think that because an issue appears to have been settled, it doesn't exist anymore. You just sweep it under the rug and pretend it doesn't exist.

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

Blest is that government where no art thrives.