Antonio Gascot

“I was an inexperienced fifteen-year-old sociopath who had never had any depth of emotion.”
― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: a con artist's masquerade

“(Logically–for what had a more gloomy prognosis than life?–every morning one should say to one's friends: 'I grieve for your irrevocable death,' as to anyone suffering from an incurable disease, and was the universal omission of this minimal gesture of sympathy the model for their reluctance to discuss the dreams?)”
― J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World

“Sure there's a hell...”
― Jim Thompson, Savage Night

“ethicalities aside,”
― Jim Thompson, The Alcoholics