Stephen

“To show up the vine-clusters to the eye, so they can be seen, and yet leave enough foliage to prevent the sun scorching the fruit, without leaving too much, is a delicate work.”
― John B. Newman, Wa-wa-wanda: A Legend Of Old Orange

“By now it's clear that waves of cultural nostalgia are so often geared toward reclaiming what never quite existed.”
― Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

“His own deism allowed for a God who, having made the world, did not participate in the working out of its ends, whose management of human destiny only inherited in his allowing the patterns and values established by His will to work themselves out in human affairs. Lincoln's response to his own question is to change his tone and focus.”
― Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

“All publicity works upon anxiety.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing