Michael Smith > Michael's Quotes

“Yes! Clumly had thought. There it was. Whatever it meant, spiritualistic trash for old ladies or the roaring secret of life and death, for a minute there Clumly had believed he wanted to know.”
― John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues

“...yesterday, returning from Wawela I had some ethnological ideas, but I can't remember what they were.”
― Bronislaw Malinowski, A Diary in the Strictest Sense of the Term

“The before dinner atmosphere, the blend of patchouli, warm pitchblend, iced electricity, sugared sweat and powdered urine drives one on to a fever of delerious expectancy.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn