Michael Vogl

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the
room was like sunlight to me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“I wish I were. I wish. I were-what? A pair of ragged clauses scuttling between two dark parentheses? Possibly I am.”
― Malcolm Lowry, Ultramarine