Ronald

“Of course,' he said, 'it is possible to be haunted by the living as by the dead.”
― Reggie Oliver, A Maze for the Minotaur

“In Catcher in the Rye, the protagonist Holden Caulfield mentions reading books that make him wish he could be friends with the author and be able to call him on the phone and so forth. I would consider a literary work that made someone feel this way a success. Furthermore, it’s the only kind of success in literature that means anything to me.”
― Thomas Ligotti

“If asked to name the definitive image in Lovecraft, one might likely say its tentacles flailing from the body of a monster. For me it would be probably be puppets, manikins, and clown-like things, even though these are more often a matter of metaphor than a literal presence of a monstrous type. Nevertheless, if Lovecraft’s tentacle monsters and my puppets and so on fought each other, I think the monsters would win.”
― Thomas Ligotti

“No, the old proverb does not lie: Look for the brave in prison, and the stupid among the political leaders!”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956