Joseph Adrian

“It mattered little if one was mute; people did not understand one another anyway. They collided with or charmed one another, hugged or trampled one another, but everyone knew only himself. His emotions, memory, and senses divided him from others as effectively as thick reeds screen the mainstream from the muddy bank. Like the mountain peaks around us, we looked at one another, separated by valleys, too high to stay unnoticed, too low to touch the heavens.”
― Jerzy Kosiński, The Painted Bird

“I want something that'll give me the stamina of a young werewolf, the vision of a shaman, the thoughts of a serial killer and the gentleness of a hungry vampire bat.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

“Miracles are statistical improbabilities.”
― Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio

“Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard