Alan Yee

“If evere I do unto my kin that shame, or elles I empeyre so my name that I be fals, and if I do that lak, do strepe me and put me in a sak, and in the nexte river do me drenche. I am a gentil womman and no wenche.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that - and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast vulgar, and meretricious beauty ... and to this conception he was faithful to an end.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Maybe we can start again, in the new rich land – in California, where the fruit grows. We’ll start over.
But you can’t start. Only a baby can start. You and me – why, we’re all that’s been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that’s us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can’t start again.”
― John Steinbeck

“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!”
― Tennessee Williams