Yon Blas

“I am trying to penetrate the mystery of why I am as I am- what I am- I have done everything well and right- and it can't be wrong because it was right.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs

“He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!”
― Emily Dickinson

“With no light and no mirror, I cannot tell a thing except the dress is dark. Dark as my mood. Dark as my future.”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

“Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom.”
― Sebastian Faulks, The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives