Rolf Korb

“Frankly, Olan couldn't hit a bull in the ass with a ping pong paddle.”
― Kyle Keyes, Worm Holes

“You create yourself, whatever you believe you are. You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship

“if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can’t afford to see no doctors?”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“There is seldom a physical description of a character or scene in Pride and Prejudice and yet we feel that we have seen each of these characters and their intimate worlds; we feel we know them, and sense their surroundings. We can see Elizabeth's reaction to Darcy's denunciation of her beauty, Mrs. Bennet chattering at the dinner table or Elizabeth and Darcy walking in and out of the shadows of the Pemberley estate. The amazing thing is that all of this is created mainly through tone—different tones of voice, words that become haughty and naughty, soft, harsh, coaxing, insinuating, insensible, vain.

The sense of touch that is missing from Austen's novels is replaced by a tension, an erotic texture of sounds and silences. She manages to create a feeling of longing by setting characters who want each other at odds.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books