Shane McCall

“That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“Consuming culture is never as rewarding as producing it.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
― Elbert Hubbard