Boris

“щяха да се надрискат, ако видеха как баба е похарчила пари, които е нямала, за да направи на блудния син погребението, което според нея той заслужава, едно от ония погребения, каквито вече от години не се виждаха в селото, с тамалес с агнешко за всички присъстващи, с музикална група от севера, с мариачи, с каси, с цели каси ракия от захарна тръстика, та всички да направят хубаво главата и да оплакват Маурилио както си му е редът”
― Фернанда Мелчор, Hurricane Season

“When Paul Valéry was interviewing Albert Einstein, he asked the great scientist, “Do you carry a notebook around to record your ideas?” Einstein was an unflappable man, but this question clearly unnerved him. “No,” he answered. “There’s no need for that. You see I rarely have new ideas.”
― Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

“What we call the imagination consists of fragments of memory that lack any clear connection with one another.”
― Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

“Tell people in America that your novel sold a million copies in Japan or won some literary prize and they’re basically unimpressed, but get published in The New Yorker and they start treating you very differently. I often find myself envious of a culture like this, where such a landmark magazine exists.”
― Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation