Martin Stray

“Then the dark began to go in smooth, bright shapes, like it always does, even when Caddy says that I have been asleep.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Shit, money, and the Word, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country’s fate.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

“At a certain degree of lucid intoxication, lying late at night between two prostitutes and drained of all desire, hope ceases to be a torture, you see; the mind dominates the whole past, and the pain of living is over forever.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed!”
― Albert Camus, The Fall