Antonio Gascot

“Religija je raskoš (...) Ali, bog ne voli kišu... Bog ne voli detelinu! Boga se ne tiču ni vaše duboko oranje ni plitke avanture, bog je jastuk od zlatnog baršuna, dijamant okovan suncem, skupoceni okvir izrezbaren u ljubavi, to su otmene četvrti, svilene mantije, izvezene čarape, ogrlice i prstenje, ono što je nepotrebno i čudesno, električne radionice (...) Bog nije korisno sredstvo, bog je poklon za praznik, bespredmetan poklon, platinska poluga, umetnička slika, tanana posledica. Bog je nešto više. On nije ni za ni protiv. O je dodatak (...) Raskošni bog prezire vaše ponašanje bednika, vaše prljave čarape, vaše usrane gaće, pocrnele okovratnike i pokvarene zube. Bog ne pušta u raj tanke zaprške, slabo uhranjene pevce i izgladnele koke. Bog je veliki srebrni labud Bog je soko od safira u blistavom trouglu, dijamantsko oko na dnu zlatnog noćnog suda. Bog je slast merena karatima, platinska tajna, on je stotinu hiljada prstenova vitezova Malampje, bog je večna voštanica u rukama vladike u kadifenom plaštu. Bog živi u plemenitom metalu, u tečnom biserju kipuće vode, u kristalu etera. Bog vas gleda, balegari, i bog vas se stidi.”
― Boris Vijan

“In the first place, a new synthesis never results from a mere adding together of two fully developed branches in biological or mental evolution. Each new departure, each reintegration of what has become separated, involves the breaking down of the rigid, ossified patterns of behaviour and thought. Copernicus failed to do so; he tried to mate the heliocentric tradition with orthodox Aristotelian doctrine, and failed. Newton succeeded because orthodox astronomy had already been broken up by Kepler and orthodox physics by Galileo; reading a new pattern into the shambles, he united them in a new conceptual frame. Similarly, chemistry and physics could only become united after physics had renounced the dogma of the indivisibility and impermeability of the atom, thus destroying its own classic concept of matter, and chemistry had renounced its doctrine of ultimate immutable elements. A new evolutionary departure is only possible after a certain amount of de-differentiation, a cracking and thawing of the frozen structures resulting from isolated, over-specialized development.”
― Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe

“ethicalities aside,”
― Jim Thompson, The Alcoholics

“There are many accounts of prison floors strewn with genitals, breasts, tongues, eyes and ears. Arma virumque cano, and Hitler-Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find that his thoughts turn to torture.”
― Martin Amis, Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million