Walter Perkins

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
― St. Augustine

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses