James

“You take a shower, your head is up, far away from everything, lost in the clouds, but down in the tub, man, you know who you are.”
― Toby Barlow, Babayaga

“It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“The whole state of Maine is unlocked.”
― Jonathan Lethem, Dissident Gardens

“It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You only became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four. A few years later, you had an old man's chest hair. It wasn't worth it.”
― Roddy Doyle, Bullfighting: Stories