Anthony Brooks

“A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless beside being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with, he who knows nothing about a subject, and what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, — or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walking

“The bad are the few, but often they shout louder than the many. Don’t mistake silence for weakness.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Just remember,” he told her. “If you run from me, I will pursue.”
― Nenia Campbell, Fearscape

“Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walking