Emil Cioran

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.