Laura

“You've got no time at all, but it seems like you've got forever. You've got nothing to do, but it seems like you've got everything.
You make coffee and smoke a few cigarettes; and the hands of the clock have gone crazy on you. They haven't moved hardly, they've hardly budged out of the place you last saw them, but they've measured off a half? two-thirds? of your life. You've got forever, but that's no time at all. You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.”
― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me

“Nothing is more comforting than the weaknesses of persons obviously superior to oneself.”
― Isaiah Berlin

“The tortured are a class apart. You can imagine – just – where they’ve been, but never what they’ve brought back.”
― John le Carré, A Legacy of Spies

“The happiest types I've ever known ran puppet shows - turning puppets into people. It works much better than turning people into puppets.”
― J.B. Priestley