The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.