“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”

“He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.”

“If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.”

“Trapped like a trap in a trap”

“Given a choice between being trapped on a desert island with a group of writers or a family of howler monkeys, I think I'd pick the monkeys. At least I could eat them.”

“When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.”

“Revenge may be a wound that transcends all human consciousness. Those who are trapped in it will never be the same person again.”

“The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become”

“you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?”

“Animals, these beings trapped
As I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap,
Aging, but without knowledge of their age,
Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death
— Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!The world goes by my cage and never sees me.”