“A drunkard never walks where he can fly.Only the sober believe that the inebriate stagger to and fro. In reality they float on invisible wings and arrive everywhere much earlier than expected.”

“He was no lover in a worldly sense; the only love he knew was that of divine understanding, of taking a whole life into its depths as if they were his own. From this, the greatest pain, the greatest happiness is born: the hope that we too will one day be understood, strangers will accept our words, our lives, as if they were their own.”

“At any rate, they were strange fellows, these bohemians. They lounged around doing nothing and told you they were working; they were frightfully miserable and yet would tell you that they were perfectly happy. They had more troubles than others but seemed to bear them better, as if they fed on suffering.”

“Nagyon elcsodálkozott, hogy neve is van, és hogy épp így hívják, Kasornya Kálmán. Nem valami dallamos vezetéknév, de van benne valami szomorú muzsika. Alapjában az is furcsa, hogy néhány betű jelent egy egész embert.(Borotva)”

“El kellene készülni a halálra, mert oda se lehet készületlenül menni. Ő azonban úgy érezte, hogy aki a halálra elkészül, az az életre készül el, s csak az élhet, aki nyugodtan meg tudna halni.(Borotva)”

“When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination.”

“Her flesh was powdery and voluptuously weary, as if tenderized by all the different beds and arms in which she had lain. Her face was as soft as the pulpy flash of an overripe banana, her breasts like two tiny bunches of grapes. She exuded a certain seedy charm, a poetry of premature corruption and decay. She breathed the air as if it burned her palate, baking her small, hot, whorish mouth. It was as if she were sucking a sweet or slurping champagne.”