the thing about books is, there are quite a number you…

“most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.”

— Jim Dodge

“mead for my men!”

— Donald Barthelme

“i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.”

— B. Traven

“don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.”

— B. Traven

“what i really need is a dead man.”

— Chester Himes

“inside the coop where he'll stay until he's killed, the rooster sings anthems to liberty because he was given two roosts.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn.”

— Péter Nádas

“a man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance.”

— Charles Willeford

“the enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself”

— John Barth

“a reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.”

— Robert Walser

“fate is the ultimate preexisting condition.”

— Mark Leyner

“i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit.”

— Johnny Shaw

“they are mystified by certain instances.”

— William Carlos Williams

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

— Janette Rallison