The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast

...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability

Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him

A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father