
I turn to contemporary fiction seeking a shared awareness with the writer of the cultural moment we both occupy, its peculiar challenges. —
Jennifer Egan

I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power. —
Susan Abulhawa

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it. —
Douglas Coupland

Kindness is magic. —
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief. —
Oscar Wilde

A lover? Maybe. Something tender, anyway. But tender like a bruise. —
Marie Rutkoski

Then darkness swept in around him and he knew no more. —
Steven Erikson

There's only one thing to do in crisis like this - SLEEP ON IT!
Garfield, the cat. —
Jim Davis

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention. —
Jack Woodford

The thing is that there are obviously different ways to think about these kinds of situations. —
David Foster Wallace

I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister. —
Lawrence R. Klein