Ian Gort

“the art critic Crémer reminds Wyatt of Degas’s remark “that the artist must approach his work in the same frame of mind in which the criminal commits his deed”
― Steven Moore, William Gaddis: Expanded Edition

“Because survival is insufficient”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“As the American poet, Marianne Moore, said: "There is a great deal of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style, Annotated and Updated for Present-Day Use

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven