Tom Yeomans

“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“I see it as my duty to stimulate reflection on what is essentially human and eternal in each individual soul, and which all too often a person will pass by, even though his fate lies in his hands. He is too busy chasing after phantoms and bowing down to idols. In the end, everything can be reduced to the one simple element which is all a person can count upon in his existence: the capacity to love. That element can grow within the soul to become the supreme factor which determines the meaning of a person's life. My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware that beauty is summoning him.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

“Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.”
― Richard Flanagan