Marshall Mccrate

“All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly--not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things the outer limits would suffice.”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

“It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“Your burden is not to clear your conscience
But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

“Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores