In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. – Somerset Maugham
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when youre younger but now I just think well everybodys absolutely mad and Im doing quite well. – Steven Morrissey
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. – Ernest Hemingway
