Gary Smith

“All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth-all things proceeding from the earth to seasons, all things that lapse and change and come again upon the earth-these things will always be the same, for they come up from the earth that never changes, they go back into the earth that lasts forever. Only the earth endures, but it endures forever.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

“What was “walking on water,” if it wasn’t Bible talk for surfing?”
― Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

“Therefore I say this : in sooth, you may come to feel sorrow; but remember in that day that the happiness you have lost is not the only happiness life has to give ; and if you believe this—and you will one day—then later you will understand that the hardest and heaviest part of your sorrow before arose from your own obstinacy.”
― Knud Rasmussen, The people of the Polar north : a record

“Chotto, Kenichiro! Dozo, motto panukeiku.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice