Nathaniel Mathews

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS