Marcus Rodriguez

“Who am I? Or possibly, who AM I? Make it who I WAS, because once I was somebody.”
― Dorothy Baker

“When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?”
― 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

“God punishes sins, but the world I see only punishes lack of foresight and blunders.”
― Emilia Pardo Bazán