Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
Roberto BolanoMetaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
Roberto BolanoThey could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.
Roberto BolanoIโm seventeen years old, my name is Juan Garcรญa Madero, and Iโm in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. Iโm an orphan, and someday Iโll be a lawyer. Thatโs what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.
Roberto Bolano