Quotes

Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior. It's pure biology.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafón from The Shadow of the Wind, page 96

Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to living in caves, to medieval savagery, and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafón from The Shadow of the Wind, pages 106-107