Sloan

“I applied what the unofficial Humvee manual called 2-40 air-conditioning, which meant you opened two windows and drove at forty miles an hour.”
― Lee Child, The Enemy

“This book is about the stories we tell ourselves about power, and how today’s nightmares about deep states and dark conspiracies were formed: specters that were ready and waiting to be summoned and pressed back into service once America lurched back into crisis.”
― Phil Tinline, Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today

“Out of touch, on my own, surrounded by fractured rock, and scrub and sand, in a valley as hot and bleak as a crucible, I began to understand who I was and what I wanted. No one interrupted me or asked me questions. I lived without pretension. I was an”
― Paul Theroux, The Bad Angel Brothers

“animal in a purified state of utter solitude. Even if I found no gold I would have the satisfaction that I’d found contentment.”
― Paul Theroux, The Bad Angel Brothers