Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. – Judith Olney
Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt. – Judith Olney
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world…. There is nothing more unhealthy than this childish sorcery, behind all the dressing up and the presents… – Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), Amérique, 1986, translated by Chris Tur
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. – George Saunders