Tom Coady

“The world’s a bastard. Life just happens to people.”
― Lawrence Block, The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder

“It was worth while, truly,” added the young man with a melancholy smile, “to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Works of Alexandre Dumas

“They are properly described as works of fiction, with the understanding that fiction does not imply lack of truth so much as a willingness to refashion factuality in the service of drama, and perhaps in search of a higher truth.”
― Lawrence Block, The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder

“Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair." So sang a little clod of clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet: "Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite.”
― William Blake, The Clod and the Pebble