Inspiration gives no warnings.[La inspiración no avisa.]
Injections are the best thing ever invented for the feeding of doctors.[Las inyecciones es lo mejor que se ha inventado para alimentar a los médicos.]
In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.[Es imposible no terminar siendo como los otros creen que uno es.]
In spite of this, to oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.[Sin embargo, frente a la opresión, el saqueo y el abandono, nuestra respuesta es la vida.]
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That’s the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
If you wait for the big things, you can wait for the little ones.[Also known as:]He who awaits much can expect little.[El que espera lo mucho espera lo poco.]
If God had not rested on Sunday He would have had time to finish the world properly.[Si Dios no hubiera descansado el domingo, habría tenido tiempo de terminar el mundo.]
I don’t think you can write a book that’s worth anything without extraordinary discipline.
I do not believe in God, but I am afraid of Him.[No creo en Dios, pero le tengo miedo.]
I can’t think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.[Tomé conciencia de que la fuerza invencible que ha impulsado al mundo no son los amores felices sino los contrariados.]
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.[La humanidad, como los ejércitos en campaña, avanza a la velocidad del más lento.]