When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.