Dann LaGratta

“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
― dave eggers

“By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death: I'll ne'er bear a base mind: an 't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: no man's too good to serve's prince; and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two

“They are common defects of my own, and one mustn't criticise other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“The expeditions were often out of meat, and scant of clothes, but they always had the furniture and other requisites for the mass; they were always prepared, as one of the quaint chroniclers of the time phrased it, to 'explain hell to the savages.”
― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi