Ossie Caesar

“He turned his back on his mother, but the dead battlefield surrounded him on everyside. Deliberately scuffing his polished shoes, he kicked the cartridge cases at the sleeping soldiers.

I cupped my hands over my ears, trying to catch the sound that would wake them.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Kindness of Women

“Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“His eyes were as blank and bright as doorknobs.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard