Vincent Maher

“Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. It is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
― Chopin

“It was simple: one lived by irony and sentiment, one observed convention. What might have been was one more subject for detached and ironic observation; as was what might be. One surrendered, in other words; one learnt to be what one was.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman

“Nobody can exist in a cultural vacuum or truly exist outside their historical moment.”
― Gail Crowther, Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton

“No one would have guessed it from his face, but he was aware of it: a layer of his soul had been shaken loose and was slowly, gradually slipping, coming adrift.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, August 1914: A Novel: The Red Wheel I