“You’ll be nostalgic for this too, if you make it.”

— Patricia Highsmith

“For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers."

— Luigi Pirandello

“..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It’s still better than nothing.”

— Anton Chekov

“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

— James Joyce

“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."

— Vladimir Nabokov

“What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song."
— Thomas Pynchon