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“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Correction

“Pushkin loved to throw rocks. As soon as he saw a rock, he would throw it. Sometimes he became so excited that he stood, all red in the face, waving his arms, throwing rocks, simply something awful.



Pushkin had four sons, all idiots. One didn't even know how to sit in a chair and fell off all the time. Pushkin himself also sat on a chair rather badly. It was simply killing: they sat at the table; at one end, Pushkin kept falling off his chair continually, and at the other end, his son. Simply enough to make one split one's sides with laughter.”
― Daniil Kharms, The Man with the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurd

“The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.”
― Daniil Kharms