Diane Grzybowski

“His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island