Anders

“For I will memorize you. Like slaughtered ox meat I will see every piece of you hooked and splayed on the back of my lids.”
― Marc Anthony Richardson, Year of the Rat

“I have greatest confidence in my writing when it approaches an insane condition in a sober and unstrained manner.”
― Flore Chevaillier, Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers

“because after a week without creation—the antithesis of genesis—comes a nightfall of alcohol intake, of cavortingfightingfornicating and other fundamental merriments, so in the scraped-up face of dawn I take to shakes and shivers and cries into an enemy pillow, growing mossy with hate.”
― Marc Anthony Richardson, Year of the Rat

“There was a deep wisdom behind the orgiastic and hysterical aspects of ancient religion; there is much to be said in favour of this flinging open of the floodgates to grief. It might be argued that the decorous little services of the West, the hushed voices, the self-control, our brave smiles and calmness either stifle the emotion of sorrow completely, or drive it underground where it lodges and proliferates in a malign and dangerous growth that festers for a lifetime.”
― Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese