When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.

Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.

You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.