“I've lost myself in my work many times. If you love what you do, this can be a Zen thing, where past and future recede to a vanishing point and leave nothing but the perfect vexing, challenging, beguiling now.”

—  John Vorhaus

Source: The Albuquerque Turkey (2011), Chapter 17

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