Joe Chiari

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History