Albany

“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head - even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you're really like to be.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

“Do spirals end? Or just get so tiny your eyes can’t follow any more?”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures