If You Find Yourself As A Person

One Builds One's Life In Consistency; One Invests It With The Belief, However Unsupported By Reality, That One Has Always Been What One Is Now, That Even In One's Distant Past One Could Recognize The Seed From Which This Doomed Flower Has Bloomed.

I Wish I Could Avoid The People Who Have Threatened Me. My Favorite Threat Is That I Will Be Thrown In The River Miljacka, Which Is At Most Knee-deep, With My Feet Bound In Cement.

It's Not That War Crimes Stop As Soon As A Novel About Them Is Published. Literature Operates Slowly, It Is Always Inching Toward Bliss, Never Quite Getting There.

The People Who Listened To Rock 'n' Roll, I Thought, Were Bound Together Against The People Who Didn't Listen To Rock 'n' Roll. That, Of Course, Didn't Work At All. Your Taste In Rock 'n' Roll Does Not Say Anything About You, Morally Or Otherwise.

Even If You Tried To Extinguish Your Personality, What Is Left In The Story Will Reflect It, Perhaps By Its Negation. Our Lives Provide The Bricks From Which We Build These Cathedrals.