You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.