Suddenly Frankenstein

“After the drama, he had to live in the tragedy.”
― Jean Genet, Miracle of the Rose

“God was invented by the lonely people, by those who could not bear to think that no one would ever care about them, spend a thought on their loneliness. We are not chosen, what we are is terribly lonely and unloved. And all those righteous men who withdraw from the world to be with God—they’re leaving us behind because they think they can spend their life with the only being that truly loves them.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The World and All That It Holds

“The pain proclaimed: You're not human. You're a being who is incapable of social intercourse. You're nothing but a creature, non-human and somehow strangely pathetic.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“The highest moment of freedom
was attained. To fire on God, to wound him and make him a deadly enemy.
I fired. I fired three shots.”
― Jean Genet, Funeral Rites