Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

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

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

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.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

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.

We came us spirit into the world. We shall depart us spirit out of the world.

Nurturing self-confidence is a daily endeavour.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

Every time I bomb out, I have to come back. I have a feeling after a bad race that my next one will be good.

My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

If you didn't have someone to hate, you wouldn't know what to do with yourself, would you?