Cliff Townsend

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“This is a work of fiction.
If certain characters resemble people in real life, it is because certain people in real life resemble characters from a novel.
Nobody, therefore, is entitled to feel included in this book.
Nobody, by the same token, to feel excluded.”
― Fernando Del Paso, Palinuro de México