Randy Ades

“We all reinvent our pasts, but writers are in a class of their own,”
― Adam Sisman, John le Carré: The Biography

“Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.”
― Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Lessing who once said, “There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning