David Anthony

“Doubtless, by definition, God was Reason itself. But would he also be "reasonable" [...]”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap,”
― Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.