Luc De Coster

“Sleep democratizes fear. The terror of a lost shoe or a missed train are as great here as those of guerrilla attack or nuclear war.”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“Wie droomt over geweldloosheid als een reële mogelijkheid, roept vaak het meest extreme geweld op.”
― Hans Achterhuis, Met alle geweld

“Here is someone not set up for life's working out poorly, let alone for the impossible.But who is set up for the impossible that is going to happen? Who is set up for tragedy and the incomprehensibility of suffering? Nobody. The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy-that is every man's tragedy.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral