March 2012
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Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and...
– Paul Auster, City of Glass
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February 2012
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It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know.
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I...
– Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
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And it’s a hell of a thing to say but—I never met another man...
– Charles Bukowski, in a letter to John Martin, December 11, 1985 From Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters, 1978-1994
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No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
– C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some...
– Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
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He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his...
– Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason
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I am an invisible man.
No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen...
– Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He...
– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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Oh I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust...
– Dylan Thomas, November or December 1936 From The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas
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