It was very big to think about everything and everywhere.

- James Joyce

…but it has never been easier.

- Steven Johnson

You are what you love, not what loves you. That’s something I figured out a long time ago.
Charlie Kaufman from Adaptation

Let our scars fall in love.
Galway Kinnel

When the available spiritual space is not filled by some higher motivations, then it will necessarily be filled by something lower - by the small, mean, calculating attitude to life which is rationalized in the economic calculus.

Schmacher. E.F. Small is Beautiful. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. 10.

A writer’s work is important to the extent that the ideal bookshelf on which he would like to be placed is still an improbable shelf, containing books that we do not usually put side by side, the juxtaposition of which can produce electric shocks, short circuits.

Calvino, Italo. The Uses of Literature. Orlando: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. 82.

Though he had heard my voice when I first addressed him, the sounds had come to him in a manner so contrary to his experience that he had made no answer, “seeing no man,” as he expressed it, “and hearing a voice as it were from my own intestines.”

Abbott, Edwin A. Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions. New York: Penguin Books, 1984. 101.

I don’t know why solitude would be a balm for loneliness, but that is how it was for me in those days…

Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. 18.

There is a reality in blessing… It doesn’t enhance sacredness, but it acknowledges it, and there is a power in that. I have felt it pass through me, so to speak. The sensation is of really knowing a creature, I mean really feeling its mysterious life and your own mysterious life at the same time.

Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. 23.