Ross Carmichael

“The instant of nature
forming between them drained every drop from the walls of   his life
leaving behind just ghosts
rustling like an old map.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

“obstinacy is perhaps the only human quality that matters at the end of the day, not only in the profession of the policeman but in many professions. At least in any that have something to do with the notion of truth.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory

“...it is perhaps one's own fault, to see oneself drifting, rotting, in dishonour and horrible futility, and all the while knowing that somewhere within one there is the possibility of a decent human being.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days

“It is only true inasmuch as it is truly followed.”
― Jacques Lacan