1. I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.
2. I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels.
The Lying Life of Adults
3. How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.
The Story of a New Name
4. The whole future–I thought–will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning. But it won’t be worse that the past.
The Days of Abandonment