Tony Dib

“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“On a tiny planet that has been racing toward oblivion for millions of years, we are born amid sorrow; we grow, we struggle, we grow ill, we suffer, we make others suffer, we cry out, we die, others die, and new beings are born to begin the senseless comedy all over again.”
― Ernesto Sabato, The Tunnel

“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.”
― Donald Barthelme, The King