Paduke

“Pronto comprendió que sólo existían dos maneras de acceder a él: mediante la violencia abierta, que no venía al caso pues era un hombre apacible y nervioso al que repugnaba hasta la vista de la sangre, o mediante la literatura, que es una forma de violencia soterrada y que concede respetabilidad y en ciertos países jóvenes y sensibles es uno de los disfraces de la escala social.”
― Roberto Bolaño, Nazi Literature in the Americas

“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”
― Daniil Kharms, Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings

“No! No! No!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text