Ricardo Rodríguez Quintero

“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
― Henry James

“The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Chile, el golpe y los gringos

“And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs—and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“A good sense of humor, then, a taste for the ironies of life, and an appreciation of the absurd.”
― Paul Auster