“Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individu...” — Manuel Puig Quote

“Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.”

“I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.”

“We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.”

“That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.”

“The United States should propose partition in Syria. Assad can keep what he controls, and the rebels can form local governments and establish a new entity.”

“The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.”