Michael Beck

“Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.”
― John le Carré

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anais Nin

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
― William Shakespeare

“He had always thought that a Native American should have shot Robert Frost for the outrageous lie of the line “The land was ours before we were the land’s.” What a scandal that would be, America’s best-loved geezer falling in a battle over poetry.”
― Jim Harrison, The Ancient Minstrel: Novellas