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

“A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.”

“Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.”

“Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.”

“Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened,”

“Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.”

“By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.”