Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Quotes about the world

“Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.”

“Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.”

“The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.”

“There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.”

“Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.”

“In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.”

“All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's not on the curriculum.”

“If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.”

“In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.”

“The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.”

“Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?… Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?”

“God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil….”

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”