Serge Albertoff

“When folks wants a fellow, it's best to wait till they sends for him, I've found.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“While still a student, Napoleon had written on the last page of his geography book: "St. Helena. Small island." This may have been what we call a coincidence, but the thought must certainly have aroused terror in him in his last days.”
― Akutagawa Ryunosuke

“Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.

(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)”
― Ovid

“It's that he persists in the bizarre, adolescent belief that getting to have sex with whomever one wants whenever one wants to is a cure for human despair.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays