David Lucas

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Farms are well ordered, prosperous, but a fragrance of neglect still lingers, like a ghost of fallen grass. There is always a sense of loss, a feeling of being forgotten. There is nothing else here; no castles, no ancient monuments, no hills like green clouds. It is just a curve of the earth, a rawness of winter fields. Dim, flat, desolate lands that cauterize all sorrow.”
― J.A. Baker, The Peregrine

“The most powerful poetry is birthed through cracks in history, through what is broken and unseen.”
― Joy Harjo, Catching the Light

“You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.”
― James M. Cain