“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me…” – Jorge Luis Borges

“The Alicia was so much smaller than most of the other buildings around her, and so much more interesting. She was special.” – Juan Martinez, ‘Extended Stay’

“We play by the ‘suggestion’ method: one person changes chords, and gradually, the rest of the band comes around to that suggestion.” – Dave Barry, interviewed on the Cracked podcast, paraphrased

“He readed in his front chest pocket, fished out a Marlboro, and lit it. ‘So what the hell we been serving then?'” – Anthony Bourdain, ‘Bone In The Throat’

“basketball is like jazz” – ancient That Guy proverb

“I like flycrusted, offal poetry / I like dead, stuffed & waterlogged poetry” – Adrian Sobol, “GARBAGE POETRY”

“Ford was President, Nixon was in the White House, and FDR was runnin this country into the ground” – Stumpy, ‘Out Cold’

“Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spread over a hundred years, no one notices…American outrage is always for show.” – Percival Everett, ‘The Trees’

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” – James Baldwin, interviewed

“Caracas’ preferred modes are ‘infernal’ and ‘nightmarish.’ By day it torments and by night it terrifies.” – Héctor Torres, ‘The Relentless City’