Viv Mitchell

“How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity

“He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.”
― Donald Barthelme

“Tell me something boss. What do you think is the highest form of art?

'Literature," he answered without hesitation. 'Painters and sculptors require elaborate supplies and tools. Dancers must have music. Musicians must have instruments. Literature needs nothing but a voice to speak it or sand to scrawl it in.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Siren

“The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir