Josh

“Come here, Elisabetta, my little sister. One day you asked me what life was. Do you still want to know?”

“Yes, what is life?”

“It is something you’ve got to fill up well, without wasting any time. Even if you break it by filling it too full.”
― Oriana Fallaci

“Big Brother is not watching you; Big Brother is you, watching.”
― Stanley Rothman, The End of the Experiment: The Rise of Cultural Elites and the Decline of America's Civic Culture

“It is only through the possession of an ever-illuminating library that we can come to recognize and understand the horror and wonder of the human family's Odyssey and its quest for wholeness, freedom, salvation, love, and dominion over fire, flood, suffering, and every disease and death—from the river Styx to space. Without reading as an essential resource for survival in our everyday experience, the individual . . . swings in the orchard of time, an empty-headed scarecrow—gleeful in his wilderness.”
― Leon Forrest, Relocations of the Spirit: Collected Essays

“It is a fabled city that I seek;
It stands in Space's vapors and Time's haze;
Thence comes my sadness in remembered joy.”
― A.M. Klein, The Second Scroll