Nathan Black

“Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions."

"Nice little saloon, isn't it" I said, as if noticing it for the first time.

"At noon I gave no orders for change of course, and the mates whiskers grew much concerned and seemed to be offering themselves to my unduly notice.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer

“It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.”
― Edgar Allan Poe