Simon King

“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.”
― Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

“As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles.”
― Bertrand Russel

“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”
― Anthony Burgess

“Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.”
― Henry David Thoreau, The Quotable Thoreau