Nathan McClallen

“Always let your conscience be your guide" is advice of doubtful value. Conscience must be, among other things, a list of sayings, an anthology of quotations and precepts. Where did they come from, and who first wrote them on my empty slate, and why?”
― Richard Mitchell, The Gift of Fire

“I have made and accepted my own version of the natural order of things, and actually supposed a universe that has, or damn well ought to have, my convenience in mind.”
― Richard Mitchell, The Gift of Fire

“When the power of saying is small, the power of thinking is small.”
― Richard Mitchell, The Gift of Fire

“And it does occur to me that, as I sit here in no pain at all, some not inconsiderable number of my contemporaries are suffering every bit as much pain as any cave painter suffered, and asking themselves exactly what principle it is by which a long life is thought better than a short life.”
― Richard Mitchell, The Gift of Fire