Paco Mahone

“...you have to ask yourself two questions: Who am I? And how may I become myself?”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

“Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possible. A thing with them is no sooner said than done.”
― Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

“...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano