"It reminds me of two drunks leaning on each other."

“When people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.”

“Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.”

“I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.116, Atlantic Books Ltd

“In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive and to take from others. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educates others into slaves.”

“In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.”

“I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.”

“Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.”

“Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare.”