Josh

“John Dewey. ‘The serious threat to our democracy is not the existence of foreign totalitarian states. It is the existence within our own personal attitudes and within our own institutions of conditions which have given a victory to external authority, discipline, uniformity and dependence upon The Leader in foreign countries. The battlefield is also”
― Stuart Jeffries, Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

“Without fully realizing it, I began writing my first book. It was neither a vocation nor a particular gift that pushed me to write, but quite simply the enigma posed by a man I had no chance of finding again, and by all those questions that would never have an answer.”
― Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas

“A forest, by contrast, the description of a forest, as discovered in a handbook, a miscellany, an annual—this implies a romance of some kind, does it not?”
― Anonymous

“But these being glove-gray country mice that have skittered in from a Tom-and-Jerry cartoon, I root for their innocence and ingenuity. I am even mouse-proud. My mice arc smarter than your mice! After the stunt with the Skippy peanut butter jar, I felt as if they had gotten 8oos on their SATs. These guys arc good.”
― Lance Morrow, Second Drafts of History: Essays