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

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“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

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin