Dave Russell

“For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“I have the imagination of disaster and see life as ferocious and sinister.”
― Henry James

“But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

“People avenge themselves for the favors done them.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night