Jim Gorman

“There is nothing so immediately rewarded in American life, in the arts or anything else, as a shrill and limited consciousness.”
― Jim Harrison, Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfiction

“Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things - I’m telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.”
― Peter Straub

“The truth is the passion of a small and aberrant minority of men, most of them pathological. They are hated for telling it while they live, and after they die they are swiftly forgotten. What remains to the world, in the field of wisdom, is a series of long-tested and solidly-agreeable lies.”
― H.L. Mencken