Jake Hoople

“Oscar Wilde’s “beautiful untrue things” that save the imagination from falling into “careless habits of accuracy.”
― Harold Bloom, The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

“We must not only be concerned with what is happening to the soil; we must wonder to what extent insecticides are absorbed from contaminated soils and introduced into plant tissues. Much depends on the type of soil, the crop, and the nature and concentration of the insecticide. Soil high in organic matter releases smaller quantities of poisons than others. Carrots absorb more insecticide than any other crop studied; if the chemical used happens to be lindane, carrots actually accumulate higher concentrations than are present in the soil. In the future it may become necessary to analyze soils for insecticides before planting certain food crops. Otherwise even unsprayed crops may take up enough insecticide merely from the soil to render them unfit for market.”
― Rachel Carson

“even if it meant early release of a few low-level felons or minor mental defectives”
― Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

“In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.”
― Salman Rushdie