Jonathan Hyde

“I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday”
― Virginia Woolf, On Fiction

“...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
― Henry David Thoreau