Aaron M. Silverman

“Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I myself would have liked to read, the sort by an unknown writer, from another age and another country, discovered in an attic. ITALO CALVINO”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash 1929

“After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage,”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon