Michael Irenski

“Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is the heritage, and cousin to death. That the only love can only be the first love, the only death the last, the only life within, and the only word . . . choked forever.”
― Jack Kerouac, Maggie Cassidy

“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin