Simon King

“How perfectly goddamn delightful it all is to be sure”
― Charles Crumb

“Originality requires learning, hard work, the mastery of a medium and – most of all – the refined sensibility and openness to experience that have suffering and solitude as their normal cost.”
― Roger Scruton, Confessions of a Heretic, Revised Edition

“As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles.”
― Bertrand Russel

“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.”
― Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium