Michaël Wertenberg > Quotes

“Doctor Hilliard set his elbows on the desk and buried his nose in the tepee of his index fingers.”
― Michaël Wertenberg, Edifice Complex

“I’m one of the good subway conductors; I wait for them to bustle and bump and cram and claw into my box–not like Sanchez, who won’t even wait a half-minute. I’ll wait. I know how badly people need their box.”
― Michael Wertenberg, The Orthography of Madness and Misgivings

“It jiggled with his breaths, the fat moving in ripples as if it were but a layer of skin covering a nest of squirming larvae; that if I were to get hold of a knife and slice him open, his belly would spew forth a torrent of little writhing things to the floor.”
― Michaël Wertenberg, Delirium's Muse