No desdeñes nunca las ideas imaginativas, Jack, a ellas se llega sólo después de mucho pensamiento, de mucha reflexión y mucho estudio, y de notable … - Javier Marías

Everything that happens to us, everything that we say or hear, everything we see with our own eyes or we articulate with our tongue, everything that enters through our ears, everything we are witness to (and for which we are therefore partly responsible) must find a recipient outside ourselves and we choose that recipient according to what happens or what we are told or even according to what we ourselves say.

Everything persists and continues on its own, even if you yourself decide to withdraw.

El que aquí cuenta lo que vio y le ocurrió no es aquel que lo vio y al que le ocurrió.