Willem Venter

“He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.”
― Terence McKenna

“Smirky mouths make you want to kiss them, to smooth them out and kiss the smirkiness away.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games