Bibliogrub

“No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wings. - Garraty's thoughts on death and dying, The Long walk”
― Richard Bachman

“Like Crowley, Bennett was also an asthmatic and cycled through a number of medicines to help him maintain his health. Given that this was turn-of-the-twentieth-century prescription medicine, this meant cocaine and opiates, among others, all of which were commonly available through a physician if not simply purchased over the counter.”
― Colin D. Campbell, Thelema: An Introduction to the Life, Work & Philosophy of Aleister Crowley

“Immortality is a meaningless word unless invulnerability goes with it.”
― Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds

“To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett