James

“I've never had an overall strategy or a plan, you know, I've just always wanted to show off and uh you know, just try to get ahead like everybody else. Uh I did have some consuming vision, you know, I do have certain secret chambers of thought, you know, which involved uh you know, reestablishing a theocracy and being the high priest of a new invisible temple and dominate the world with a compassionate vision. But outside of that, you know, I've just tried to make a living and support my kids and send them to school and kind of keep out of trouble myself.”
― Leonard Cohen

“I cupped my hand around the warmth of the pipe and slipped into a slow dream, into a lubricated, airless world that I was condemned to move through with enormous effort and no desires, slackjawed, toward the exit where the indifferent light of the morning was slumbering, unreachable.”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti

“he felt unworthy of so much hatred, so much love, so much willingness to cause suffering.”
― Onetti Juan Carlos

“You're not going out in this rain. You can stay here forever, for all the time you want."
He leaned back in his chair and mocked me without looking at me.
"In this Rain. Forever. All the time," he said as he walked up to me and touched my arm.”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti