Leslie Wexler

“Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.”
― Jonathan Swift

“In the meantime, I hope you will not consign her to a windowless environment populated entirely by unsocialized clones who long ago abandoned the reading and discussion of literature in favor of creating ever more restrictive and meaningless ways in which humans are intended to make themselves known to one another.”
― Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members

“I wish him episodes of glorious, sun-washed tedium and a loss of innocence he will contemplate for the rest of his life.”
― Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members

“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. ”
― John Milton, Areopagitica