Devon Ewalt

“There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return.”
― Jerzy Kosiński, The Devil Tree

“As a boy I got the idea that death was an animal which lay curled inside waiting to swallow us.”
― Jerzy Kosiński, The Devil Tree

“Here we are, I thought, a bunch of grown-up kids locked in an empty room playing naive games with each other. No one understands anybody else. We are wandering around in dark caves, holding our little private candles, hoping for some great illumination. I don't like to think I'm as confused or simple-minded as the others, but if I really am more complex, more experienced than they are, why should I want them to understand me?”
― Jerzy Kosinksi

“I deserve no punishment at all for being who I am.”
― Jerzy Kosiński, The Devil Tree