Matt Deblass

“Each cow was searching for her perfect partner, and despite years of research, no scientist has ever been able to discover the criteria that females use when choosing mates. Maybe it’s because each cow chose, for herself alone, the one bull that would most displease her mother.”
― Catherine Raven, Fox and I

“Look deeply as I have into the gas-lit faces in the streets around us, in the streets of any American city, and you will see a carefully dissembled maniacal hatred, a hooded yet furnace-red glare—”
― Fritz Leiber, Smoke Ghost: & Other Apparitions

“Over nineteenth-century telegraph wires OK would have been sent in the original Morse code, also known as American Morse or Railroad Morse, in the pattern dot-gap-dot dash-dot-dash, rather than dash-dash-dash dash-dot-dash of today’s International Morse Code. The O was signaled by two dots with a long intracharacter gap to distinguish it from I, which used two dots with a short intracharacter gap.”
― Allan Metcalf, OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word

“I realized that a fox, like a rainbow and every other gift from Nature, had an intrinsic value that was quite independent of its longevity.”
― Catherine Raven, Fox and I