Bob Gustafson

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.”
― Taylor Ellwood, Pop Culture Magick

“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything