Chuck LoPresti

“Why frighten little children with the dark when one can quiet them with it and lead them into dreams?”
― Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Autobiography of a Corpse

“He felt himself at last beginning to be a teacher, which is simply a man to whom his book is true, to whom is given a dignity of art that has little to do with his foolishness or weakness or inadequacy as a man.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“My life in this pit will soon enter its fifth year. For more than forty-two months, I have thought hate, have lain down with hate in my heart, have dreamed hate and awakened with hate. I suffocate in the knowledge that I am the prisoner of a horde of vicious apes, and I rack my brain over the perpetual riddle of how this same people which so jealously watched over its rights a few years ago can have sunk into this stupor, in which it not only allows itself to be dominated by the street-corner idlers of yesterday, but actually, height of shame, is incapable any longer of perceiving its shame for the shame that it is.”
― Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

“But me no buts, we're going to make whoopee, I tell you.”
― Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine