José Ignacio ZG

“A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.”
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

“«Sí, estoy enamorada de ella», se convenció Sumire. Sin duda alguna (el hielo es, al fin y al cabo, frío, y la rosa es, al fin y al cabo, roja). Y este amor me conducirá a algún sitio. No puedo impedir que esta fuerte corriente me arrastre. Ya no tengo elección. Tal vez me lleve a un mundo especial que jamás he conocido. A un lugar lleno de peligros, quizá. Donde se esconda algo que me inflija una herida profunda, mortal. Tal vez pierda todo lo que poseo. Pero ya no puedo volver atrás. Sólo puedo abandonarme a la corriente que discurre ante mis ojos. Aunque me consuma entre las llamas, aunque desaparezca para siempre.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their characters as required, creating only when they failed to find a suitable existing puppet. The modern novel should be largely a work of reference. Most authors spend their time saying what has been said before – usually said much better. A wealth of references to existing works would acquaint the reader instantaneously with the nature of each character, would obviate tiresome explanations and would effectively preclude mountebanks, upstarts, thimble-riggers and persons of inferior education from an understanding of contemporary literature.”
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

“Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.”
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds