All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. – Rudyard Kipling
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. – Rudyard Kipling

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. – Rudyard Kipling
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. – Rudyard Kipling
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves Its pretty, but is it Art? – Rudyard Kipling
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. – Rudyard Kipling
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)