Boris De Vries

“It’s tempting, emptiness.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Original of Laura

“it was a crime to take anything too seriously, as oppressed as we felt by the adult and conventional world. All the most serious art is not only sad but hilarious. What other intelligent way to live is there but to laugh about it? The alternative, also respectable, is suicide. But how could you do that? Not only would it betray a woeful lack of humor, but it would keep you from finding out what was going to happen next.”
― Richard Hell, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp

“I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living”
― John Fante, Full of Life: A Definitive Biography of John Fante and His Los Angeles Muse

“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform