William Harris

“You can only cruise the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

“Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“He sniggered.
He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“I trudged along through each day in its turn, looking up only rarely, eyes locked on the endless swamp that lay before me, planting my right foot, raising my left, planting my left food, raising my right, never sure where I was, never sure I was headed in the right direction, knowing only that I had to keep moving, one step at a time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood