Michael Joseph Schumann

“So it's okay. Go out there bravely, and know the first good thing you do will be on the back of many bad things. So let the bad things count, and enjoy writing them too.”
― Robert Shearman

“had I been able to speak, it would have afforded me a chance to help him understand God’s ways and set him on a proper path. Instead, I rested upon the man’s cold, dry hand; his blasphemy had invited a thin layer of death to creep upon him. For it was clear that a part of his soul was already dead.”
― Marc Hartzman, The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir

“So much strain and muscular labor involved in absorbing food. I’m exhausted just watching it. But above all there is speech, incessant speaking, where the inflated edges of the tube are stretched and contracted, knotted and unknotted, ripped open or pressed shut, flued and drummed, hammered and gnawed. Licked. That tube has two ends. To the far end goes all ignominy, and to the fore end all the glory, hymns of praise. Her lips were lovely. The swollen ring at one end of the tube, fastened to rings and riggings of muscle. All these sounds. It’s exhausting. I notice the upper jaw doesn’t move at all, only the lower. You see the skull so clearly I wonder people don’t think of death whenever they witness speech, or speak themselves, feeling that hinge flap up and down, and even back and forth a bit—how can it go back and forth? Is the socket that loose, or is it something else, like a leather hinge, like a book binding?”
― Michael Cisco, The Narrator

“The global economy is destroying the world; steal it all and then charge your victims for the service, abandon humanity and save the financial institutions.”
― Michael Cisco, Animal Money