There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

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

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.