McKenna

“When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page; she had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own heart and the agitations of the world. For this reason she was fond of seeing great crowds and large stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures...”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“This was my conversion to the baroque. Here under that high and insolent dome, under those tricky ceilings; here, as I passed through those arches and broken pediments to the pillared shade beyond and sat, hour by hour, before the fountain, probing its shadows, tracing its lingering echoes, rejoicing in all its clustered feats of daring and invention, I felt a whole new system of nerves alive within me, as though the water that spurted and bubbled among its stones was indeed a life-giving spring.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Because you're such a wonderful spectacle: I always like to see what you are doing.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth