“There is no escaping life. It takes what is it's due.”

“It's no secret, of course, that souls sometimes die within a person and are replaced by others — especially with age.”

“The insomnia I am talking about results from a mild state of possession, harmless to those around you, who sometimes even fail to notice it. It usually comes when you are completely engrossed in your work and overtakes you so completely that every aspect of your daily life becomes mechanical and provides only a colorless backdrop to action occurring only in your mind. It matters not whether at this time you are asleep or awake. The secret life pulses within you, and when you wake in the middle of the night you realize there is no way to stem its flow.”

“От толкова години с теб сме заедно, че втори януари пак е вторник.Бродски, "Шесть лет спустя”

“...вера, которая у каждого человека есть личная тайна...”

“Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.”

“All my sins were trapped between its covers. And the damn thing just wouldn’t go away. I’d tried to escape culpability, and my culpability had had the nerve to take on a life of its own and hunt me.”