Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.

In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats

Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

Reading is more important than writing.

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.