Frank Smoley

“You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.”
― Jon Krakauer

“Perhaps the early indicators of the end times were not birthed in these later events. But were rather the symptoms of a fundamental flaw in the human condition.”
― Rohith S. Katbamna, Down and Rising

“I sincerely want to use her knowledge to help me with my dissertation.”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel

“The ads have also helped manufacture a sense of panic about time, depicting families so rushed and harried in the morning that there is no time to make breakfast, not even to pour some milk over a bowl of cereal. No, the only hope is to munch on a cereal bar (iced with synthetic “milk” frosting) in the bus or car. (Tell me: Why can’t these hassled families set their alarm clocks, like, ten minutes earlier?!)”
― Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation