[He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

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

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills.Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.

Le speranze le hanno le persone, ma i destini li distribuisce il diavolo.

Las estadísticas lo demuestran: más gente muere en la cama que en la trinchera.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

People only disappear when they have somewhere to go