Phil Erickson

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.”
― Michael Chabon, Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
― Jane Austen

“You can still die when the sun is shining.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man