Paco Ignacio Taibo II

“El futuro será como quiera que sea, pero alguien tiene que hacerlo”

“Cuanto más hago el amor más ganas tengo de hacer la revolución”

“Así es la muerte de cabrona, acaba con las vueltas, las disquisiciones, las opciones.”

“They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.”

“What they don't know is that we all belong to the places we've never even been before. If there's any kind of legitimate nostalgia, it's for everything we've never seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the friends we haven't made, the books we haven't read, all that food steaming in the pots we've never eaten out of. That's the only kind of real nostalgia there is.”

“Les hommes les plus sains d'esprits ne sont que des fous tranquilles.”

“To write a novel is fundamentally an act of impudence. To comb one's hair is also an act of impudence, especially when it's done to try to cover a scar running across the top of one's forehead. But combing one's hair is an act of minor impudence, whereas writing is a more serious affair. We mask reality, we hide our fears, we reinvent things that have been said, and above all, the people who said them. Writing a novel implies a certain perversity. It's not something one can do with a tortoiseshell comb. It is perhaps for that reason that they take away my pen at night. Not, as they pretend, to prevent me from accidentally stabbing myself in the throat with it- but to prevent me from killing anyone else.”