Nancy Holte

“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
― ursula le guin

“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
― Mark Twain

“The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him "meek and mild" and recommended him as a fitting household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine