Matt Arch

“Life gets tedious,” she quoted. “Not sometimes. All the time.”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

“I had even taught myself never to consider the consequences of losing a fight. Too much cross-referencing of consequence robs the will of its single-minded concentration to win.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

“I think I wanted to see how complicated things happen,” West said years later. “There’s some notion of control, it seems to me, that you can derive in a world full of confusion if you at least understand how things get put together. Even if you can’t under stand every little part, how infernal machines get put together.”
― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine

“Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?”
― Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art