Patrick Carroll

“Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“She managed to thank God for having been born before she lost herself in the inconceivable pleasure of that unbearable pain, splashing in the steaming marsh of the hammock which absorbed the explosion of blood like a blotter”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“They sat contemplating towns to come and the poor fanfare of trumpet and drum and the crude boards upon which their destinies were inscribed for these people were no less bound and indentured and they watched like the prefiguration of their own ends the carbonized skulls of their enemies incandescing before them bright as blood among the coals.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West