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“I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.”
― Pierre Bourdieu, The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field

“If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

“You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy