"Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur."
John Connolly
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute."
Tom Schulman
"To be naked is a sign that the glory is lost."
Sunday Adelaja
"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Narrative secrets are not the same as human mysteries, a lesson that novelists seem fates to forget, again and again; the former quickly confess themselves, and fall silent, while the true mysteries go on speaking."
James Wood
"How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?"
Andrew Sullivan
"The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free."
Judith Martin
"A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ('Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds')."
Ray Bradbury
"Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry."
Norman Borlaug
"Everyone tries to be an optimist. But being an optimist is a bit boring and not honest. Losers are more interesting than winners."
Xiaolu Guo
"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost in the footsteps of other lives."
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