Tami Hammerschmidt

“Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes

“It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.”
― Robert Hass

“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave.”
― John Clare