Gabriel Sehringer

“But when something is so complete, there has to be a reaction. That’s the way things go. What kind of erections have I had since? Tengo wondered. He couldn’t recall. Maybe he hadn’t even had one. Or if he had, it was obviously not very memorable, a subpar hard-on. If his erection had been a movie, it would have been low budget, straight to video. Not an erection even worth discussing. Most likely.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“A woman asks at night for a story with a happy ending. I have none. A refugee, I go home and become a ghost searching the houses I lived in. They say— the father of my father of his father of his father was a prince who married a Jewish girl against the Church’s will and his father’s will and the father of his father. Losing all, eager to lose: the estate, ships, hiding this ring (his wedding ring), a ring my father handed to my brother, then took. Handed, then took, hastily. In a family album we sit like the mannequins of school children.”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Dancing in Odessa

“The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.”
― Italo Calvino, Marcovaldo

“If you want an expert opinion, money doesn’t necessarily make people happy.” “Thanks for the information. You’ve just saved me a lot of trouble. I was just about to go make some money.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle