Marc Iverson

“Slowly I felt flooded with that agonizing and poignant confusion that surely comes to all aging men experiencing their first adolescent love. I had no great wish to go on living; what was the point of a flawed happiness. According to Bonnard, the hardest moment of all is when the artist longs to keep on but he’s conscience tells him that one brushstroke more will spoil the entire painting. And man has to know when to stop.”
― Romain Gary

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
― Bruce Lee

“The wind blew the dust along the ground into his mouth as he sang.”
― Paul Bowles, Collected Stories, 1939-1976

“He'd been in the yard long enough to understand when he could afford to face into the breeze and when he'd do better to bend in the hurricane.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile