“Tragic no matter what gets said, no matter who says it, no matter to whom, Born tragic.”
“Then I dried myself in my soft bathrobe, shaved very carefully, put on fresh underwear and a shirt, a perfectly pressed gray suit, shiny shoes, my nicest tie and in this way, drawing on all the best things I had available, I started to feel the courage to move forward. It was a way of fooling myself, of course, but it worked : you can judge a book by its cover.”
“Calm down. It amounts to nothing. Calm down. And that taxi driver was right, I wasn't supposed to park there, I was wrong. It was simply the wrong place, for me, too, for what I wanted to do, regardless of the prohibition: it was too whatever.”
“People think of us infinitely less than we believe. To be honest, they almost never do”
“indeed I know for a fact that you do know, what the fuck kind of questions are you asking me”
“What you have to focus on here is perfection, pure and simple”
“-and then what happened?- I asked him, but I had no desire to know. Whatever it was, it has to be ugly.”
“How long depends on many unknown factors, but it will happen”