“The hunger to unlearn what so many of us have been taught is pronounced” – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, ‘An Indigenous People’s History of the United States”

“I’m gonna miss the way you violate the English language” – Joshua Marie Wilkinson, ‘Trouble Finds You’

“Any private thrill was like peeing your pants. Dylan knew to be ashamed of the relief.” – Jonathan Letham, ‘The Fortress of Solitude’

“It’s Midwinter Day today a day / To cause the sun to stand still as it will anyway” – Bernadette Mayer, ‘Midwinter Day’

“The ideas / only words direct. // Out dying between / the moment & / saying it:” – Mathias Svalina, “The Wine-Dark Sea”

“New York is a Tourettic city, and this great communal scratching and counting and tearing is a definite symptom” – Jonathan Lethem, ‘Motherless Brooklyn’

“Board Man gets paid” – Kawhi Leonard, to teammate, San Diego State University practice

“How much longer am I going to do this? I don’t know. I *love* it, you see.” – Anthony Bourdain, ‘Kitchen Confidential’

“After sawing myself in half / half of me moves to the woods // and buries itself / in a heap of leaves.” – Zachary Schomburg, “The Sawing In Half”

“Mental aptitude tests cannot measure genius except in certain narrow ranges, and the genius of the body…eludes comprehension.” – Joyce Carol Oates, ‘On Boxing’