Seth Mattei

“I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.”
― Ken Jennings, Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

“Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!”
― David Sedaris , Me Talk Pretty One Day

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“One should not believe too easily in a life which can easily vanish.”
― James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime