Writing [is] a form of prayer.

The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

Writer speaks a stench.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.