Nunca hay que escribir con la concha

La muerte pide resignación, la ausencia no.

Is it better to have bronze than copper and tin separately? Is this the marker of some historic advance?

Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo.

So much news about the president's assets, the president's broadsides, the president's teeth, the president's business dealings, the president's shoes: it got boring.

Give them all the contextualization and whatnot you like – they're still chalk and cheese.

I'd rather any kind of business on the ground floor than the utter lack of respect for pedestrians with which buildings are put up in this city today. . . . Nobody cares any more about pedestrian identity.