Murray Matkowsky

“Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“…there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old…”
― John Irving, A Widow for One Year

“Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.”
― Salman Rushdie

“There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder