Alex

“When you entered the cavern of another language, you could leave certain people behind, for they had no interest in following you in. You could, by way of translation, emerge from the cavern and share your adventures with them. You didn’t have to be an intellectual in a black beret smoking clove cigarettes to be a translator, not at all. You could become one in your blue flannel pajamas, your face smeared with Clearsil. You did.”
― Elizabeth Mckenzie, The Portable Veblen

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

“Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.”
― Thomas McGuane

“Astonishingly, we are saved not by a special apparatus known as religion, but by the quality of our everyday relations with one another.”
― Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate