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

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.

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.

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.

I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.

I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.

You learn from the good, you learn from the bad.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?

A good trader loves an active market, you don't make money when the market is static.

The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.