Vincent Maher

“if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

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

“Books no longer inspired reverent joy but dread—dread that he would never be able to hold his own with an author, that every new book he read would seduce and enslave him.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, August 1914: A Novel: The Red Wheel I

“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