“I’ve never had any rights in this country and I’m happy to renounce any I’m supposed to have. That way they can’t bother me.”
— Dimitri Verhulst
“Any similarity between existing people and certain characters in this book is due solely to insight into human nature.”
— Dimitri Verhulst
“It was truer to my father to let the songs he’d sung die with him, little by little, averse at a time. How could these art-mongers constantly ignore the mortality of beauty, a pleonasm if ever I’d heard one?”
— Dimitri Verhulst