Dennis

“You think he’s a real writer, Park?” “Sure he is. He’s got three books right in this library.” “True or made up?” “Made up.” Parkins put his knife away and sighed.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

“All unhappiness enters through the window of observation and the door of thought.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“I’ll say goodbye with something that another of my favorite writers, John Cheever, said in his journal at the end of his life: ‘I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess, and that its role as a consciousness must inform us of our inability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.”
― Rodrigo Fresán, The Invented Part

“Airports, on the other hand, are like airport bestsellers. They’re easy to read, you forget them quickly, you promise yourself to never again succumb to their temptation, and yet the brightness, those signs, those letters in metallic relief . . . And the passengers who consume those airport bestsellers are increasingly worthy of them. Beings with decreasing capacity for concentration, robots of flesh and bone who can’t go even a minute without connecting to their devices and extensions, as if they were waiting for the confirmation of the success of a sports star they idolize or the news that they’ve become fathers or mothers, even though their respective spouses are right there beside them in that very moment, looking after little kids hooked up to tablets where they surf without waves or a beach.”
― Rodrigo Fresán, The Invented Part