Nastaran

“Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.”
― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

“In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.”
― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

“Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
― Paul Auster

“انسان چگونه حسی ست ، من چگونه حسی هستم وقتی خودم را ،بارانی ام را ، شال گردنم را و چمدانم را با خود حمل می کنم از جایی که نمی شناسم به جایی که فقط یک احتمال هست برایِ آسودن؟ من چگونه حسی هستم ووقتی ذهنم شاخه ،شاخه،شاخه است که من در هر شاخه اش اسیر و اسیر و اسیرم به جستجویِ نیافتن و نبودِ آنچه در جستجویش هستم”
― محمود دولت آبادی / Mahmoud Dolat Abadi, سُلوک