Jon Turner

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is."
So?"
So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death