Clemente Russer

“Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.”
― Italo Calvino

“Agonies are one of my changes of garments.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Mobilis in Mobile”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea