Lukasz Pruski

“[T]he pain was unspeakable, worse than reading the collected works of Edith Wharton.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hounded

“The problem was to love people, try to serve them, without wanting anything from them. I was a long way from solving that one.”
― Ross Macdonald

“The French, than whom - it's a very than-whom people all round - none can be more vacuously orotund, are (the same ones) obligingly terse. On occasion.”
― Nicolas Freeling

“. . . yet there is no avoiding time, the sea of time, the sea of memory and forgetfulness, the years of promise, gone and unrecoverable, of the land almost allowed to claim its better destiny, only to have the claim jumped by evildoers known all too well, and taken instead and held hostage to the future we must live in now forever. May we trust that this blessed ship is bound for some better shore, some undrowned Lemuria, risen and redeemed, where the American fate, mercifully, failed to transpire . . .”
― Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice