Evan > Evan's Quotes

“... we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”
― Owen Wister, The Virginian

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas