October is the month for painted leaves…. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight. – Henry David Thoreau, “Autumnal Tints”
From the latter weeks of October to Christmas-eve… is the period during which happiness is in season, which, in my judgment, enters the room with the tea-tray… – Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October. – Hal Borland, c.1961
All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about whats cool. – Steven Brust
There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. Thats what people in Liverpool are passionate about. – Ian Rush
