Marco Balicco

“At first you maybe start to like some person on the basis of, you know, features of the person. The way they look, or the way they act, or if they're smart, or some combination or something. So in the beginning it's I guess what you call features of the person that make you feel certain ways about the person. ... But then if you get to where you, you know, love a person, everything sort of reverses. It's not that you love the person because of certain things about the person anymore; it's that you love the things about the person because you love the person. It kind of radiates out, instead of in. At least that's the way ... That's the way it seems to me.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System

“E poi chi l'ha detto che si deve proprio vivere allo scoperto, sempre sporti sul cornicione delle cose, a cercare l'impossibile, a spiare tutte le scappatoie per sguasciare via dalla realtà? E' proprio obbligatorio essere eccezionali? Io non lo so. Ma mi tengo stretta questa vita mia e non mi vergogno di niente: nemmeno delle mie soprascapre. C'è una dignità immensa, nella gente, quando si porta addosso le proprie paure, senza barare, come medaglie della propria mediocrità. E io sono uno di quelli.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Castelli di rabbia

“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest