David Todd McCarty

“THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WRITING has taught me is this: the more vulnerable you allow yourself to be, the stronger you become.”
― Abigail Thomas, Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing

“Deduction, then, is possible—though no longer fashionable.”
― Annie Dillard, The Annie Dillard Reader

“The only true stereotype about Black women is how Black women will say, “Well, no one’s doing it, so I guess I’ll do it.” Once you put that lady in your office, no matter what your office is, if you treat her right, she is going to do your job and her job. And I think people are slowly realizing that.”
― Judd Apatow, Sicker in the Head: More Conversations About Life and Comedy

“One wonders, after reading a great many such firsthand accounts, if polar explorers were not somehow chosen for the empty and solemn splendor of their prose styles—or even if some eminent Victorians, examining their own prose styles, realized, perhaps dismayed, that from the look of it, they would have to go in for polar exploration.”
― Annie Dillard, The Annie Dillard Reader