Anybody can be anybody, he told himself as he eased his…

“People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all.”

— Paul Russell

“If it was to be a time of momentous changes, then why not allow oneself to be swept along?”

— Paul Russell

“Were archaeologists really such a sex-starved lot as all that? Did pigs really sweat?”

— Paul Russell

“The world is what it is.”

— Paul Russell

“Everything I say is right. "Everything I say is wrong. There are many conflicting opinions in this industry. Don't take one person's word as…

— Paul Russell

“If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?”

— Paul Russell

“Shirtless, they’d stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads…

— Paul Russell

“And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.”

— Paul Russell

“Why not simply surrender to one’s doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?”

— Paul Russell

“Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions apparently arrived…

— Paul Russell

“The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.”

— Paul Russell

“Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the…

— Paul Russell

“Our students didn’t used to come from such damaged families,” Louis mused. “It’s true what they say. This country really is coming apart at…

— Paul Russell

“You’re the enemy. You’re the one who’s going to defeat yourself.”

— Paul Russell

“Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.”

— Paul Russell