we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

- Roberto Bolano

Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, …

- Roberto Bolano

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

- Roberto Bolano

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

- Roberto Bolano

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening …

- Roberto Bolano

What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and…

- Roberto Bolano

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have b…

- Roberto Bolano

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

- Roberto Bolano

Every hundred feet the world changes

- Roberto Bolano