Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.

Why envy someone else's success when God has already blessed you with a mind to strive and achieve yours?

You cannot always have happiness but you can always give happiness.

"There are no illusions" - This is a gross illusion.

If you're too dangerous to fly, you're too dangerous to buy a gun.

Don't you just hate it, when you are in bed with three beautiful women, and the least attractive one whispers: save it for me!

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.