John Baker

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“A great nose may be an index
Of a great soul”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic