Michael

“I couldn't believe it.

Something wasn't right.

I thought, "Batman smokes cigarettes."

I couldn't believe it. "Batman smokes fucking cigarettes."

I walked away and saw that Batman was just this stupid guy dressed up in a rubber suit, just as afraid as I was, and that I lived in a lost place inside my own heart, where even Batman couldn't help me.”
― Scott McClanahan, Hill William

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“One cannot increase one’s talent—that comes with the package—but it is possible to keep talent from shrinking.”
― Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams