Brent Legault

“There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.”
― Sam Lipsyte

“what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.”
― Vladimir Nabokov