There’s just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that’s a police revolution. - Imre Kertész

What we usually mean by fate is what we least understand, that is to say, ourselves, that subversive, unknown individual constantly plotting against us, whom , estranged and alienated but still bowing with disgust before his might, we call, for the of simplicity, fate.

I live and occasionally I look up at the glorious air or the clouds into which I keep digging my grave with my pen, diligently, like a forced laborer, whom they order every day to dig deeper with his spade…

There was truth in Diaz’s logic, yes: our line of work is like that. Once you have started, the only way back is to go forward.