“The God-fearing, churchgoing farmers are all gone. Now they all have TVs on their roofs and orgies in their barns. The flux, Fly, man, the flux of time. If everything goes tits up, there’s always the farm and the cows...” — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He… — Rawi Hage Copy Share
In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one… — Rawi Hage Copy Share
“Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in that scenario?” — Rawi Hage Copy Share
“We are all the products and victims of our own upbringing, until we reflect, refuse, and rebel.” — Rawi Hage Copy Share
“God created each one of us with a light inside. I’ve had sex with all kinds of people; every single person has a kind… — Rawi Hage Copy Share
“So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.” — Rawi Hage Copy Share
“Everything about her seems to be saying, Listen, if you don’t look attentively, if you don’t go beyond my simplicity to detect the simmering… — Rawi Hage Copy Share
“Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids… — Rawi Hage Copy Share
“The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless… — Rawi Hage Copy Share
“What the fuck is legal in this universe? Stars eat each other, wolves eat the pigs, and Grandma fucks over Little Red Riding Hood.” — Rawi Hage Copy Share
“Miller is overrated. Ninety percent of his writing is incomprehensible, and incantation of the word cunt does not make you a sexual liberator.” — Rawi Hage Copy Share
“This lesser world is all about reproduction, as you might well know. Those who cease to duplicate simply die.” — Rawi Hage Copy Share
There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking. — Rawi Hage Copy Share