Dave Russell

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

“Desire is sad.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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

“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