Steve Schiff

“Pensamos, he said, que somos las víctimas del tiempo. En realidad la vía del mundo no es fijada en ningún lugar. Cómo sería posible? Nosotros mismos somos nuestra propia jornada. Y por eso somos el tiempo también. Somos lo mismo. Fugitivo. Inescrutable. Desapiadado.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“Nora Ephron wrote that none of us should wait to have our “last meal.” Have it now, have it all the time, or you may end up in the ICU and your last meal will be institutional porridge.”
― Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

“But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“He will not know that while the order which the righteous seek is never righteousness itself but is only order, the disorder of evil is in fact the thing itself.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing