Jeff King

“His brother William had all of that too, but it was only one half of him; the other half was made up of a deep self-consciousness where all his rawness and freshness had been buried in irony.”
― Colm Tóibín, The Master

“The personality of a man always poses the biggest obstacle to his own education,”
― Amor Towles, Table for Two

“it’s better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“They were about a foot tall, and something about their matching size and identical bandit masks, coupled with their misjudgment of aspens as an escape route, gave me a sense of real glee at the originality of things.”
― Thomas McGuane, The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing