Adam Trout

“It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Love is never any better than the lover.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray