Rowan Watson

“Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“Everything passes away - suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The White Guard