Dave Russell

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

“No sooner had the town dropped back than all sort of stuff and nonsense, as is usual with us, began scrawling itself along both sides of the road: tussocks, fir trees, low skimpy stands of young pines, charred trunks of old ones, wild heather, and similar gibberish.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

“Somewhere along the line I began compiling myself from the excerpts of better men.”
― Kirk Curnutt, Breathing Out the Ghost

“Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia