“What reader or dreamer doesnt imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the morning and in the evening attends cocktail parties thrown by nouveaux riches...”

“Fiction is overrated, Fly. Weve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, thats what c...”

“Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in that scenario?”

“What the fuck is legal in this universe? Stars eat each other, wolves eat the pigs, and Grandma fucks over Little Red Riding Hood.”

“In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.”

“I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.Well, lets talk Algeria then. Lets talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.”

“Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!”

“Totally isolated from our own culture for long periods, we became vulnerable to forgotten times and tribes re-awakening within us. Our journeys, we found, were to take us simultaneously to some of ...”

“Can we at least avoid the cannibals? I prefer not to vomit when screaming for my life.”

“...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.”

“There are no moral obligations in the game of empire.”

“Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp”

“Suffering is when we resist the moment.”

“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”

“And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness.”