Ira

“I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.”
― Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche