Micki

“Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
...On the other hand, he SAID it.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

“Literature had torn Tessa and me apart, or prevented us from merging in the first place. That was its role in the world, I'd started to fear: to conjure up disagreements that didn't matter and inspire people to act on them as though they mattered more than anything. Without literature, humans would all be one. Warfare was simply literature in arms. The pen was the reason man invented the sword.”
― Walter Kirn, Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever

“Some people are lucky enough to stumble across the right path straight away; most of us only discover what the right one is by going down the wrong one first.”
― Toby Young