Roberto Bolano Quotes

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn’t laugh or be sad with him.