Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.