Andres Ocon

“Buying is much more American than thinking.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“The boy was just another wanderer amongst us who'd desired to fit in and asked for nothing more of this world than that simple wish to bear his fruit. He was a vagabond, a soul freed from heaven and tarnished, dipped in this earthly pool and rusted like iron, the scars shown upon his heart like Adam when he'd eaten the apple.”
― Edward A. Farmer, Pale

“In that moment he was no longer a slave, as he'd once considered, for his existence inside that house was now a circumstance of his own choosing, although he failed to recognize the score of wealthy men who were each slaves to their fortunes and indeed all of those fanciful tyrants who wielded influence over many people yet held less authority over their own lives than the servants they commanded.”
― Edward A. Farmer, Pale

“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven