Harry Collier IV

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”   - Ray Bradbury”
― Craig Hart, The Writer's Tune-up Manual: 35 Exercises That Will Scrape the Rust Off Your Writing

“After years wasted,” the Revd commences, “at perfecting a parsonical Disguise,— grown old in the service of an Impersonation that never took more than a Handful of actor’s tricks,— past remembering those Yearnings for Danger, past all that ought to have been, but never had a Hope of becoming, have I beach’d upon these Republican Shores,— stoven, dismasted, imbécile with age,— an untrustworthy Remembrancer for whom the few events yet rattling within a broken memory must provide the only comfort now remaining to him,—”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

“Aitisi nai poroja,” replied Veikko, a pleasantry long grown routine, meaning, “Your mother fucks reindeer.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day

“...we all have an exaggerated idea of our own personalities and don't recognize the truth if it's sufficiently brutally portrayed...”
― Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy