Joe Bruno

“We'll always have Paris.”
― Howard Koch

“Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the Larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

“The longer I live, Burke, the more I have come to understand that extraordinary people are eroded by their worries while the useless are carried ever forward by their delusions.”
― Téa Obreht, Inland

“The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.”
― Horace, Epistolas Ad Pisones De Ars Poetica