"He wanted to diminish the surface he offered the world, to sleep until everything was consumed." ~Albert Camus, A Happy Death (16)

"I had a choice: I could stay home and die young - keep on dying - or I could fly away to someplace completely foreign where I knew no one and where maybe I could figure out what was me and what was geography, what was me and what was circumstance." ~Atlas of the Human Heart, Ariel Gore

"You ask me why I spend my life writing?
Do I find entertainment?
Is it worthwhile?
Above all, does it pay?
If, not, then is there a reason?...

I write only because
there is a voice within me
That will not be still."

~Sylvia Plath, 1948