Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

El mundo habrá acabado de joderse -dijo entonces- el día en que los hombres viajen en primera clase y la literatura en el vagón de carga.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.