The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
The two real problems in life are boredom and death.