Bob Olsen

“Christine went off on her own to look for Mrs. Symes and to buck up sick people. She made a cheery progress from bed to bed”
― Charles Portis, The Dog of the South

“Today, the medium contains multitudes and man needs only pick one thing he likes and feast exclusively on a stream dedicated to it. There’s twenty-four hours of blues, surf music, left-wing whining, right-wing badgering, any stripe of belief imaginable. There are stories as interesting as lemming suicides and totally true, like the fact that whale songs have inexplicably lowered in pitch 30 percent since the sixties. But these stories are buried on animal documentary channels, where they will probably never capture the general public’s imagination.”
― Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

“any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“The Maccabean women were proud of their lineage and she resented her daughter having married into the mongrel Herodians. Yet Alexandra did not realize that”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography