Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.

- Andrzej Stasiuk

Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects us to the earliest time, …

- Andrzej Stasiuk

This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes t…

- Andrzej Stasiuk

It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country you k…

- Andrzej Stasiuk

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its i…

- Andrzej Stasiuk

Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and peoples is the shape of thei…

- Andrzej Stasiuk