“In that moment, I realized how dangerous it was to keep company with the characters from books. They lived book lives of fierce deeds and deep yearning.” ― Jeffrey Ford, Ahab’s Return: or, The Last Voyage

“Most everything is a knockoff of something else. Once you get the idea, everything you see, read, taste or smell becomes an allusion to it. It’s the art of transforming things.” ― Richard F. Thomas, Why Bob Dylan Matters