Dana Ali

“Writers are different,” said Waldegrave. “I’ve never met one who was any good who wasn’t screwy.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

“All love, ultimately, is self-love.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

“As I began to prune and shrivel I thought about going to the police and falsely confessing to everything, anything they wanted, just to get it over with. After a few years a college journalism class would review my trial and see that I was obviously innocent. There would be embarrassing publicity. The governor would grant me a pardon and I’d be released. At my press conference I’d say, “I knew God would make this day happen. In my heart, I was always free.” And then I would weep. And then I would sue the shit out of the city and the mayor’s office and the police department and anybody else I could find, to make sure that no one would ever have to suffer such terrible freedom in their heart again.”
― Paul Neilan, Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel

“At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife's barbiturate addiction and death by overdose, and then his own lung cancer, Doc said, "It was enough to have been a unicorn." What he meant was that he got to do art. It was magic to him that his hands and mind got to make wonderful things, that he didn't have to be just another goat or horse.”
― Mark Vonnegut, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So