
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all. —
Peter Matthiessen

My heart cracked. Daemon never begged. —
Jennifer L. Armentrout

If we could tell a film, then why make a film? —
Jafar Panahi

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. —
Mark Twain

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young. —
Chely Wright

I tighten my fingers around his. If we just hold on tight enough, it will all be okay. —
Jenny Han

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human. —
Jared Diamond

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. —
George Santayana