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“Comedy is a lie, too, of course. It’s a defense, an aggression. It is a thing created to separate, to say, “I am not like this.” It is Godlike in its judgment and, by definition, the antithesis of empathy. Comedy sits on its throne and states: You are ridiculous. You are pathetic. You are stupid. Your pain amuses me. Most important, I am not you. Even comedy directed at the self, the stand-ups, the Woody Allens of the world, is performed as an act of defense: I am in on the joke that is me, therefore the joke is not me.”
― Charlie Kaufman, Antkind

“How peculiar that she saw her son every day but had only succeeded in drawing closer to him through a book.”
― Keiichirō Hirano, A Man

“My voice carries less in the snow.”
― Édouard Levé, Autoportrait

“Having died young, you will never be old.”
― Édouard Levé, Suicide