Brett Lanier

“I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.”
― John Hodgman

“The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.”
― Italo Calvino

“It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka