Voyage to the End of the Room Quotes

“Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.”
― Tibor Fischer, Voyage to the End of the Room

“Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away.”
― Tibor Fischer, Voyage to the End of the Room

“It’s like training dogs. You want the dog to obey you, but you can’t have real respect for a dog that always obeys you. You want a dog that occasionally goes over the wall or bites the postman without your permission; you want to be reminded that you command a subdued yet wild animal, not a crawler. A man should be strong enough to kill you with his bare hands.”
― Tibor Fischer, Voyage to the End of the Room

“Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.”
― Tibor Fischer, Voyage to the End of the Room

“We might not want to share our food or our money, but we do want to share our judgement. We want others to think we have more fun.But we need meeting-places of the mind. A Kilimanjaro of spirit that we've all visited so we can say of other things: it's shorter, or taller, or the same height as Kilimanjaro.”
― Tibor Fischer, Voyage to the End of the Room

“Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.”
― Tibor Fischer, Voyage to the End of the Room

“Almost all of us have the hankering to be famous, to be important, to be admired, to stand out, but the assumption is you have to be different or better to get that. No. The best thing is to be famous, to be cuddled by the public, but to be like everyone else.”
― Tibor Fischer, Voyage to the End of the Room

“There are those who say clothes are frippery, jumped-.up nothingness. They’re wrong. They say that style only makes you feel invincible and successful, but if it makes you feel invincible and successful, isn’t that enough? Which is easier, buying clothes or becoming invincible and successful? And the bonus of feeling invincible and successful is that others think you are too.”
― Tibor Fischer, Voyage to the End of the Room