Chris Peters

“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a man and a woman, which we expect at the center of a novel. Indeed, they rather shy away from permitting in their fictions the presence of any full-fledged, mature women, giving us instead monsters of virtue or bitchery, symbols of the rejection or fear of sexuality.”
― Leslie Fiedler, Love and Death in the American Novel

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov