Alex

“It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion that we want on this same miry afternoon.… There is much good in it; there are many good and true people in it; it has its appointed place. But the evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller’s cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously.”
― Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
― Joe Klein, Primary Colors