Andy C

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“I had to talk to people. All people scared me.”
― James Ellroy, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women: A Memoir

“Hear me, man, he said. There is room on the stage for one beast and one alone. All others are destined for a night that is eternal and without name. One by one they will step down into the darkness before the footlamps. Bears that dance, bears that don't.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise