Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized
