“--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again.”

“I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.”

“For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.”

“If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.”

“My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.”

“I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it. ”

“I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.”

“--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again.”

“—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of behavior can get in a man's way.—When? When it comes to torturing?”—No, when it comes to being finished with the torturers.”—But if men acted like women there wouldn't be anymore torturers.”