Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! – Thomas Carlyle
I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and theres just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. – Dave Eggers
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools dont do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots. – Camille Paglia