Ray Norsworthy

“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
― Virginia Woolf

“No se puede vivir sin amar”
― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

“againbite [agenbite] of inwit. James Joyce revived the expression agenbite [againbite] of inwit in Ulysses. it is a good example of Anglo-Saxon replacements of foreign words, meaning the "remorse of conscience" and originally being the prose translation of a French moral treatise (The Ayenbite of Ynwit) made by Dan Michel in 1340.”
― Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins

“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.