“The fortune of the man who sits also sits”

“This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.”

“Know a man's faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.”

“It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.”

“Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.”

“As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.”

“La sabiduria consiste en saber cuando evitar al perfeccion”