Luis > Luis's Quotes

“Tráigame un cirujano, tengo herido el cerebro.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.”
― Marc Norman, Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay

“Nadie está a salvo. Me enamoré. Es así de simple. Las estrellas están de sobra. Si hasta yo, que nací en el país de los que siempre llegan tarde, estoy enamorado, quiere decir que le puede pasar a todo el mundo. No escucho campanas ni me da por besar a la portera. No salto, no bailo, no canto, ni hablo solo, pero en algún rincón de mi cerebro están festejando con una banda y con fuegos artificiales. Estoy enamorado. Es más que un ácido. Demasiado. Es una felicidad que se pasa de rosca y te hace llorar. Es apenas soportable.”
― José Sbarra, Plástico cruel