“O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir f com religio e amor com casamento.”

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation o...”

“I am beginning to be sorry that I ever undertook to write this book. Not that it bores me; I have nothing else to do; indeed, it is a welcome distraction from eternity. But the book is tedious, it ...”

“Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.”

“The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much t...”

“he best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to...”

“,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.”

“Many people believe they have found the key to Heaven's gate, not realizing that there is no key hole. It is a barrier upon which you must knock. And I believe that it is by our small and simple ac...”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”