“Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.”

“Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.”

“Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to battle with nine orangutans."--Don Anacleto”

“Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”

“A man who could urinate standing up and without help was a man in a fit state to face his responsibilities.”

“Someone who lives alone, I thought. You end up becoming what you see in the eyes of those you love.”

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