Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. – Neil Gaiman
Sometimes I think I might not have written The Age of Miracles if I hadnt grown up in California, if I hadnt been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial. – Karen Thompson Walker
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. – Andre Gide
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. – Robert M. Hutchins, Great Books, 1954
