Jorge Guzman

“Immanuel Kant was obsessed with his bowels. During the summer of 1776, when elsewhere revolution was in the air, Kant couldn’t take a shit.”
― William Egginton, The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

“In Birmingham, a priest who chewed cinnamon to mask his wine breath found himself irresistible to female parishioners and pseudonymously penned the popular pamphlet Newe Sauces Swete and Sharp: A Merrie Gallimaufry of Couplings Uncouthe and Pleasant for Man and his Wyf.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Yes, you made a terrible mistake. With tragic consequences. Yes, us was mad at you. Disappointed. I won’t make any bones about it. But I got over it long before I got your letter. Yer human! Flawed. Ya’ think you’re alone. You deserve to be forgiven. We all do. I don’t know if you will ever forgive yourself, but you must try. I wanted you to hear that from me.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“It’d been years since George had accommodated a man and Jack was a lot to accommodate but he took it slowly and was deeply proud of what he accomplished.”
― Patrick Nathan, The Future Was Color