The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

be it peace or happiness let it enfold you

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,"look, look at this!" but they don't understand, they say something like,"you say you've been influenced by Celine?" no," I hold the cat up,"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.