Donald Grace

“The outsider never gets over its heightened and romantic notions of the West. The West never gets over its heightened and romantic notions of itself.”
― Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West

“The nations of the earth that most vigorously foul the planetary nest and those in possession of the most destructive arsenals ought to be governed only by young women with small kids. More than anyone else, such mothers must live in the future, and they also face each day the realities of raw human nature.. This gives them a special insight,”
― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

“There are things that are too big for us humans :
Pain,loneliness,and death, but also beauty, publicity and happiness. For them we created religion. What happens when we lose it? Those things are still too big for us. What is left for us is the poetry of the individual life.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Conscience never dies" the cricket said "There will always be a cricket for those who deserve, who are worthy.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte