What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.