Status Updates From Eén dag van Ivan Denisovitsj

"The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow."

"Moments like this, though he didn’t know it, were very important to him: they were turning the loud and domineering naval officer into a slow-moving and circumspect zek: only this economy of effort would enable him to endure the twenty-five years of imprisonment doled out to him."

"Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?"