“Letters lie before you, so release them from their neutrality and play with them like a conqueror in a delirious universe.”— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com
“For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com