Enrique Vila-Matas Quote

Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

art is risk made visible

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.