Michael Joseph Schumann

“The global economy is destroying the world; steal it all and then charge your victims for the service, abandon humanity and save the financial institutions.”
― Michael Cisco, Animal Money

“Business isn't about ties, suits and briefcases. It's about adventure.”
― Richard Branson

“Cromwell was a man who believed in the will of God and the power of an idea.”
― Marc Hartzman, The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir

“So much strain and muscular labor involved in absorbing food. I’m exhausted just watching it. But above all there is speech, incessant speaking, where the inflated edges of the tube are stretched and contracted, knotted and unknotted, ripped open or pressed shut, flued and drummed, hammered and gnawed. Licked. That tube has two ends. To the far end goes all ignominy, and to the fore end all the glory, hymns of praise. Her lips were lovely. The swollen ring at one end of the tube, fastened to rings and riggings of muscle. All these sounds. It’s exhausting. I notice the upper jaw doesn’t move at all, only the lower. You see the skull so clearly I wonder people don’t think of death whenever they witness speech, or speak themselves, feeling that hinge flap up and down, and even back and forth a bit—how can it go back and forth? Is the socket that loose, or is it something else, like a leather hinge, like a book binding?”
― Michael Cisco, The Narrator