Peter Sheehy

“Un día la besé en francés. Ella se limitó a bostezar en sueco. Yo la odié un poco en inglés y le hice un además obsceno en italiano. Ella fue al baño y dio un portazo en ruso. Cuando salió, yo le guiñé un ojo en chino y ella me sacó la lengua en sánscrito. Acabamos haciendo el amor en esperanto.”
― Fernando del Paso, Palinuro de México

“The circus is a jealous wench. Indeed that is an understatement. She is a ravening hag who sucks your vitality as a vampire drinks blood – who kills the brightest stars in her crown and will allow no private life for those who serve her; wrecking their homes, ruining their bodies, and destroying the happiness of their loved ones by her insatiable demands. She is all of these things, and yet, I love her as I love nothing else on earth.”
― Henry Ringling North, The Circus Kings: Our Ringling Family Story

“Language is the source of misunderstandings.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.”
― Italo Calvino