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"To walk, to dress to wash, to read, above all to confine myself at home in a way that caused me the least difficulty and demanded the least courage. If I went beyond that, I came up with only ridiculous ways out."

Kafka, Franz. The Diaries of Franz Kafka (The Schocken Kafka Library) (p. 174). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"Wretched, wretched and yet well meant. Yes, it’s midnight, but since I’ve slept very well, that is an excuse only insofar as during the day I would have written nothing at all. The burning electric light, the silent apartment, the darkness outside, the last waking moments they give me the right to write and be it even the most wretched things. And this right I use hastily. So that’s who I am."

Kafka, Franz.

"Perhaps in this way I could find a hidden steadfastness in myself."

Kafka, Franz. The Diaries of Franz Kafka (The Schocken Kafka Library) (p. 28). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"The spectators stiffen when the train passes."

Kafka, Franz. The Diaries of Franz Kafka (The Schocken Kafka Library) (p. 3). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"That was how my new career began. Bingo broke me in and taught me the ropes, and little by little I became his boy."

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (p. 236). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"And just like that, we were off to the races again."

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (p. 206). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"It wasn’t a bad story, especially for one he’d made up on the spur of the moment, but it didn’t fool me. No matter how much I wanted to believe him, I wasn’t fooled for a second."

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (p. 188). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"If your only motive is to be loved, to ingratiate yourself with the crowd, you’re bound to fall into bad habits, and eventually the public will grow tired of you. You have to keep testing yourself, pushing your talent as hard as you can. You do it for yourself, but in the end it’s this struggle to do better that most endears you to your fans."

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (pp. 136-137). Penguin Publishing Group.

"Pam’s fucked. Sue, too, for the moment."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 153). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"And now that I’m fine, loneliness is far too heavy and painful a state to relive. Still, I’m pretty sure it’s the truth. I’m completely alone. Not to raise my solitude over anyone else’s. It’s just scary sometimes. That’s all I can say about that. Sorry it’s vague."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 126). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"Obviously that’s 99 percent bullshit. Still, it’s astonishing what you’ll believe when you want to believe in something badly enough."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 82). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

“I’m ready, boss. You bet your boots I’m ready. Just rig up a place for me to do it, and I’m your boy till death do us part.”

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (p. 114). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"Then I remember what I do when I’m not stoned. You know, write novels that are essentially long, involved wishes for offbeat utopian worlds that I can’t realistically enter. And within a few seconds I have this idea, which, if it’s not obvious, involves writing a novel/sigil that has a wish neatly embedded inside it. I guess it can’t hurt."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 66). Grove Atlantic.

"It made me feel like a kid. Or maybe I felt like a parent, because it wasn’t as if the tale itself became real. But Chris did. Or his story did."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 44). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"Truth is dry. You’ll know the truth when everything in your world seems as if it’s been cooked until nothing is left but the exact information that separates it from other things in the world."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 22). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"I felt as if I had seen the sun explode. I felt as if I had just witnessed the end of the world."

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (p. 96). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“Why didn’t you tell me this before?”

“Because you wouldn’t have believed me before. That’s why I’m telling you now. Because the time is coming. If you listen to what the master tells you, it’s coming sooner than you think.”

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (p. 48). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"It was the Ache of Being, he said, and it was bound to strike me down sooner or later."

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (p. 34). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Goodreads sucks now.

“So what if a piece of wood discovers it’s a violin.” —Arthur Rimbaud

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 2). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"He convinced me that I couldn’t go home, and once I accepted that, I didn’t give a damn about myself anymore."

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (p. 6). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"'Folk call him a wizard, for he produces so much. Nevertheless, personally I find what he does uninteresting.'"

Gogol, Nikolai. The Works of Nikolai Gogol (Annotated with Biography) . Golgotha Press. Kindle Edition.

"Lastly, as he inspected the library and dilated on books in general, he contrived an opportunity to observe that literature safeguarded a man from a tendency to waste his time."

Gogol, Nikolai. The Works of Nikolai Gogol (Annotated with Biography) . Golgotha Press. Kindle Edition.