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

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.

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

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.

I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to.

Humans are the unrivaled plague the nature has even seen.

I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.

When I'm not working I'm a slug - a full slug. I am not good at the in-between. I'm either fever-pitched or want to just pass out on a beach with a really sleazy book and eat a cheeseburger.

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.

The real leaders of tomorrow are already working on the next big idea, the one that will drive growth into future. They're already far beyond the ideas that created today's results.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.