Marcus Rodriguez

“You shouldn't ask me whether I like him or not. The way you mean it, I don't suppose I like anybody.”
― Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

“You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.”
― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

“I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the Muse from giving me that terrible kiss. All of you who have ever been kissed by the Muse will surely understand that Oskar, once branded by that kiss, was condemned to take back the drum he had rejected years before, the drum he had buried in the sand of Sapse Cemetery.”
― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

“A man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproofed chambers of my heart.”
― David Mitchell , Cloud Atlas