James Fields

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The language he used was that of a man who was sick and tired of the world he lived in—though he had much liking for his fellow men—and had resolved, for his part, to have no truck with injustice and compromises with the truth.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.”
― Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars

“man being condemned to be free carries the weight of the whole world on his shoulders; he is responsible for the world and for himself as a way of being.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays