Carmen

“I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can’t picture. Sometimes, even now, I look on the married girls the way a wild dog might look through the window at tame ones, envying the regularity of their lives but also despising the low pleasure they get from the master’s touch.”
― Louise Erdrich

“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”
― Publilius Syrus, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave

“Wine grapes are as sensitive to assaults as authors.”
― Adam Gopnik

“When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.”
― Harry Truman