Mathew

“Sensing “the whole world, as it were, placed within the
grasp of the Evil One,” and waiting for death to visit him
too, he wrote, “I leave parchment to continue this work, if
perchance any man survive and any of the race of Adam
escape this pestilence and carry on the work which I have
begun.” Brother John, as noted by another hand, died of the
pestilence, but he foiled oblivion.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“and I began, fatally, with Dostoevsky”
― James Baldwin, Letter from a region in my mind

“10. Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It’s not a lamp, but a
‘lamp’; not a woman, but a ‘woman’. To perceive Camp in objects and
persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role. It is the farthest
extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theater.”
― Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

“Any work of art is half of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Timequake