Reality is a fiction with an unlimited budget.

― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“a year and an instant is equivalent in a monotonous life”
― Hernan Díaz, In the Distance

Writing is a monstrous act because it implies a metamorphosis. Writing, to me, is an attempt at becoming someone else. Every novel is a long way of tracing an x, of crossing myself out. I don’t want to be on the page. I want someone else to be there—someone else to “happen.” Still, despite my best efforts, I always remain, deformed and disfigured. The final paradox, of course, is that I am the one striking myself out. And isn’t this duality also quite monstrous?

― Hernan Diaz

God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.
― Hernan Diaz, Trust