Derek

“Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Life is no way to treat an animal.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“Hard people make hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun and gone away.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness