Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

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.

Every tomorrow is an outcome of what I do today, and the beauty of it all is that today is happening all the time.

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really understand the condition if you've never found yourself in it?

Visiting Saturn sounds like a lot of fun but you will die!

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.

Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

You don't write a book to show off.