Gary

“There was a street market on the curb. Swarms of old women in black cloaks jostling along like bugs in a crack. Stalls covered with blue-silver shining pots, ice-white jugs, heaps of fish, white-silver, white-green, and kipper gold; forests of cabbage; green as the Atlantic, and rucked all over in permanent waves. Works of passion and imagination. Somebody’s dream girls. Somebody’s dream pots, jugs, fish. Somebody’s love supper. Somebody’s old girl chasing up a tidbit for the old china. The world of imagination is the world of eternity.”
― Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth

“three things there are that ease the heart—water, green grass, and the beauty of woman.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“As the Acoma Pueblo poet Simon Ortiz has said, “There are no truths, only stories.”
― Jim Harrison, Search for the Genuine, The: Nonfiction, 1970-2015

“the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life—we went soft, we lost our edge.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune