Gabriel Sehringer

“If you want an expert opinion, money doesn’t necessarily make people happy.” “Thanks for the information. You’ve just saved me a lot of trouble. I was just about to go make some money.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle

“The more he talks the more she notices that his accent has a couple of continents in it, like it has landed in each place and picked up a few sounds in each.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“Think of Thelonious Monk. Thelonious Monk did not get those unusual chords as a result of logic or theory. He opened his eyes wide, and scooped those chords out from the darkness of his consciousness. What is important is not creating something out of nothing. What my friends need to do is discover the right thing from what is already there.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“A woman asks at night for a story with a happy ending. I have none. A refugee, I go home and become a ghost searching the houses I lived in. They say— the father of my father of his father of his father was a prince who married a Jewish girl against the Church’s will and his father’s will and the father of his father. Losing all, eager to lose: the estate, ships, hiding this ring (his wedding ring), a ring my father handed to my brother, then took. Handed, then took, hastily. In a family album we sit like the mannequins of school children.”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Dancing in Odessa