Michael

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Cooper didn't look away. His blue eyes pierced through the tendrils of his hair like a wolf in the woods. He held Peter's gaze. He didn't smile, but Peter saw one all the same. He didn't speak and yet they were speaking now as if for the first time. There was friendship waiting to come in from the cold. But it was more than that. There was closeness. Unbound possibility.”
― Darren Charlton, Wranglestone

“The assault on our constitutional order was inspired by people wearing suits and ties and cloaked in the genteel language of congressional debate, but their purpose was no less ominous. We can fortify the defenses of the Capitol. We can reinforce the doors and put up fences. But we cannot guard our democracy against those who walk the halls of Congress, have taken an oath to uphold our Constitution, but refuse to do so.”
― Adam Schiff, Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
― James M. Cain