Aleatory Elia

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers