Paul Coogan

“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
― Tom Waits