Austin Anderson

“PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?

GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.

GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“What was worse, she was also convinced that, with his habit of talking to strangers, he would be led astray in Paris, and, as she put it, get knocked over the head by some villainous Apache, and as a result never make it to the Pyrenees.”
― Robert Laxalt, Sweet Promised Land

“Well, you know what they say about the devil," said my father. "He spent a thousand years trying to learn the language so he could tempt them, and then he gave it up, and that's why no Basques ever go to hell.”
― Robert Laxalt, Sweet Promised Land

“This is an Art project, not a Peace project.”
― Don DeLillo, Underworld