Neil Skinner

“The utilitarian argument against fiestas, parades, carnivals, and general public merriment is that they produce nothing. But they do: they produce society. They renew the reasons why we might want to belong and the feeling that we do.”
― Rebecca Solnit

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
― John Milton , Areopagitica

“I started with a book, and that led me to a library, and that led me everywhere.”
― Terry Pratchett, Meditations on Middle-Earth

“...mutual aid and pleasure are linked, that the ties that bind are grounds for celebration as well as obligation.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster