Paul Cirone

“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

“All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life