Daniel Russo

“To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.”
― Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

“I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.”
― Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America

“If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.”
― Peter Carey

“People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else”
― Peter Carey, Collected Stories