Héctor Espinosa > Héctor's Quotes

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“– Dime, Catarro, ¿por qué si uno sabe nadar flota sin moverse y cuando no sabe se hunde?
– El miedo pesa, hijo.”
― Miguel Delibes, La partida

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
― William James