“I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed”

“I have not told the half of what I saw.”

“My heart beats as much as I can breathe.”

“Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers.”

“If I ever get rich, I'm going to buy you an elephant.”

“You may like me, you may hate me. But I guarantee you’ll remember me.”

“My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.”