A. David Lewis

“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

“Ever since that first monkey looked up into the sky and saw something twinkling up there, you meat puppets have tried to force twenty pounds of existential meaning into a ten pound sack of chaos.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods

“It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.”
― Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century

“Carl: Christ. Is the whole universe filled with assholes? Mordecai: Just the ones with the money.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods