You can’t heal under a mask, Angela. Wounds need air.

Sólo tiene convicciones quien no ha profundizado en nada.

¡Me tiene sin cuidado! ¡La filosofía es para los filósofos!

El hombre, llamado pequeño mundo, contiene en sí mismo todas las perfecciones generales del mundo.

That the world may or may not be without purpose, but it’s not totally without some kind of magic.

Son las personas superficiales las únicas que no juzgan por las apariencias. El misterio del mundo es lo visible, no lo invisible.

I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore.

The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about.

We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.

Mas pesada que un abanico de tablones

Son of a biscuit

Alguien me dijo el otro día que se sentía mal por los solteros porque se sienten solos… No es cierto, que yo soy soltero y no me siento solo. Salgo a comer solo. Una vez que sabes cuidar de ti mismo la compañía se convierte en una opción y no en una necesidad.

Nada se cree tan firmemente como aquello que menos se conoce

La manera de ser interesante es estar interesado.

Babies look racist, they are skindheads, they are not educated.

Anything is possible, but I’m interested in what’s plausible.

If you want to change the world to a better place, the best way to do it is a for-profit because for-profits have to take feedback from reality. Ironically, for-profit entities are more sustainable than non-profit entities. They’re self-sustainable. You’re not out there with a begging bowl all the time. Of course, you lose the beautiful non-profit status; you have to pay your taxes; and also you can get corrupted by being purely for-profit. But I would argue that the best businesses are the ones that are for-profit, sustainable and ethical so you can attract the best people. You can sustain it because it’s a mission and it’s not just about the money—because there are diminishing returns to making money.

As long as I have a book in my hand, I don’t feel like I’m wasting time.

Well, I tell them no one’s special, and they think I’m special for telling them so.

I’m not sure she is capable of any real feelings. She is television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her over the TV set.

Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don’t think I’ll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print."

La belleza es promesa de felicidad.

I need to slow down, but I need a good friend to come and tell me how.

Lo bueno de la television es que si algo importante ocurre en cualquier parte del mundo, sea de dia o por la noche, siempre puedes cambiar de canal.

War is God´s way of teaching American´s geography

No one can afford to live in New York. Yet, eight million people do.

We can do two things simultaneously—but we can’t concentrate on two things simultaneously

A whoa moment happens when your conscious mind takes a step back and glimpses reality for a second, which we all have the power to do—we just have to remember to think about it.

All truth is comprised in music and mathematics

La primera máquina ultrainteligente será el último intento que necesite crear el hombre, siempre que la máquina sea lo suficientemente dócil para decirnos cómo mantenerla bajo control.

• Losers are drawn to authority.
• Nobody wants to admit it, but losers are useful.
• Why?
• They are nosy. They know what everybody else is up to. And they are resentful, a lot of them. They always got a raw deal.

Hay dos perfiles en psicología; los puercoespines tienen una idea y presionan por ella sin importarles nada. El Zorro tiene una idea precisa pero es más astuto convenciendo a todo el mundo para ponerlos de acuerdo.

I’m so far ahead, I’m nostalgic about the future.

Cuando me muera, tira mis cenizas al retrete; así veré tu culo todos los días.

Cuando estas feliz, disfrutas la música. Pero, cuando estas triste, más entiendes la letra.

Si un desconocido te regala flores lo más probable, según las estadísticas, es que sea tu funeral.

I mean, if you go to an auction, um, outcomes the Picasso, dead silence. Once the hammer comes down on the price, applause. Ok? We live in a world where they applaud the price but not the Picasso. I rest my case.

El espejo a menudo fue utilizado como símbolo de la vanidad de la mujer. Sin embargo, hay una hipocresía esencial en esta actitud moralizante. Se pintaba una mujer desnuda porque se disfrutaba mirándola, y si se le ponía un espejo en la mano y se titulaba al cuadro Vanidad, se condenaba moralmente a la mujer cuya desnudez se había retratado para el propio placer.

La profesora de ballet me dijo en una ocasión: No es de extrañar que tengas el tiempo y la energía para ser amable con todo el mundo. Nunca limpias la casa.

En una silla de LeCorbusier de Mingote: “Y otra de metal y cuero de Le Corbusier, sobre la que advertía al visitante: «Tú sabrás si quieres sentarte: es de diseño».

Antes la muerte que la salud que se nos propone.

In LA they self-care so much they only care about themselves.

Y ya se puede ir uno tranquilamente que eso ya, queda hecho.

I will work. You will work. And we will have each other company. We will have each other minds. That sounds like a better marriage than most.

[Alan telling Joan that he is an homosexual so he wants to split with her]

[After describing that he eats everyday the same; tomatoes tuna fish, feta cheese and olive oil for lunch. Little pieces of chicken and broccoli and a little soy sauce. Except when he travels.] Habit in a daily routine. And then when there’s some sort of order there, then you’re free to mentally go off any place. You got a safe sort of foundation and a place to spring off from. It’s very important for me. The pure environment, the more fantastic the interior world can be, it seems to me.

We cannot properly describe life using language alone so art fills in these gaps in our understanding. […] and beyond this we come to find that is very useful at describing things that dont make sense in language.

¿El hábito hace al monje? Lo digo por esas pintas que me lleva.

Morirás en una cama de hospital con alguien sentado al lado mirando su móvil.

Se introduce uno de los libros en el receptáculo, por ejemplo Moby Dick. Se programa la duración, largo o breve, y se elige la versión: divertida, literal o triste. Después se coloca el indicador de estilo en la posición que corresponda a uno de los grandes artistas clásicos que animará el libro. Dalí, Bacon, Picasso… El aparato está programado para dar vida al texto, en forma de dibujo animado al estilo de una docena de artistas famosos del sistema solar.

Ningún hombre ha sido nunca un gran poeta sin ser al mismo tiempo un filósofo profundo.

• Aristotle thought false humility was just as bas as arrogance.

I like strangers. It’s the people I know I can’t stand

Si pasas de la felicidad, ya no estás triste.

I think the more that we have a disrespectful attitude towards our own egos, I think the happier life becomes.

En la Segunda Guerra Mundial, las personas que padecían daltonismo severo fueron utilizadas en los bombarderos, debido a su capacidad de “ver a través” de los camuflajes de colores sin que les distrajera lo que, para una persona de vista normal, habría sido una configuración de colores confusa engañosa.

El reloj del comedor dio las once con la respetuosa prudencia de alguien cuya misión en la vida es ser ignorado.

Other animals live in the present. Humans cannot, so they invented hope.

When every path has been created ahead of time, death is meaningless, making life the same. Do you see now? Do you see? Stanley was already dead from the moment he pressed start.

Cómo somos en realidad, se demuestra cuando experimentamos lo extraordinario. Sólo entonces despertará su verdadera naturaleza, profundamente oculta.