Jay Knipfel

“This is Indian country, isn’t it?” Laura said. “What did we come to their country for, if you don’t like them?”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie

“Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The hateful relationship between Japheth Dury and his mother must, we reasoned, have spilled over into self-hatred, as well—for how could any boy despised by his mother fail to question his own worth?”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist