In A Jar

“His thinking wasn’t logical. But whatever the philosophers claimed, the main use of logic was to justify your emotions.”

“A humorist is a man whose soul is black, black, but who turns his curdles of darkness into explosions of light. But when the light dies out, the black returns.”

“It was as if her face already carried the injuries of an appalling motor-car accident that would happen somewhere in the future.”

‘I’ve always thought of the whole of life as a kind of disaster area.’

‘I thought I was gone be happy for the rest of my life.’ ‘Nobody’s happy for the rest of their lives, Queenie.’

“Io mi difendo bevendo. Altrimenti, sarei già al manicomio. Contro le scelleratezze del mondo, un uomo onesto si difende bevendo.”

“Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.”

“A pensarci bene, un uovo al tegame non è che un tegame alla Bismarck.”

“L’uomo è come un romanzo: fino all’ultima pagina non sai come finisce. Altrimenti non varrebbe la pena di leggere…”

“Diffidate sempre della natura. Non è mai semplice. Non è mai naturale.”