Mark Matzeder

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
― Emma Lazarus

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor