Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist –a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist –only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression. – E. M. Cioran
A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God… When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy. – Marian Anderson
I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and Im sure Id love it, because the sentences would be tuned up like music. – Karen Russell
