If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax…

As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself...

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it’s meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author’s brains out.

I can be by myself because I’m never lonely; I’m simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the...

Kiedy w niedzielę przyszliśmy z Vladimirem a mszę, było tak, jak przepowiedział Vladimir. W czasie sumy kot siedział obok dzwonka i patrzył na ołtarz w taki sposób, że kiedy obejrzeliśmy się w pierwszej ławce za...

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it’s also a cure for melancholy.

Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books...

Because when I read, I don’t really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in...