Steven

“Story-telling is pivotal to our well-being, as are nonethnic jokes and riddles.”
― David Sedaris, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

“Third Year German was the only class where she felt vaguely human. They spent the period listening to "99 Luftballons" and trying to work out the lyrics back into English. Hielten sich fur Captain Kirk. When you found German comforting, you knew you were in trouble”
― Quan Barry, We Ride Upon Sticks

“His conception of God was of an omnipotent being who was a union not of three persons in one God-head, as in Christianity, but of two-a sick fuck and an evil genius.”
― Philip Roth-Nemesis

“What you can’t afford to lose is precisely what the world robs you of. How it knew what you needed the most, just so it could deny you that very thing, was a question for philosophers. Answer it and you’d have the kind of book Tom Ford would’ve considered worth writing: urgent and new and absolutely necessary. To write it, though, you’d have to be on fire.”
― Richard Russo, Chances Are . . .