“-and then what happened?- I asked him, but I had no desire to know. Whatever it was, it has to be ugly.”

“indeed I know for a fact that you do know, what the fuck kind of questions are you asking me”

“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.”

“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.”

“How long depends on many unknown factors, but it will happen”

“What you have to focus on here is perfection, pure and simple”

“Tragic no matter what gets said, no matter who says it, no matter to whom, Born tragic.”