Madly Jane

“Liberal democracy is about rules, not outcomes. We uphold freedom of speech, rather than favoring specific speech.”
― Fareed Zakaria, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

“…I mean we think of phenomenal change as being the very essence of time, when it’s not at all. Time is something which defies spring and winter, birth and decay, the good and the bad, indifferently. Something changeless and joyous and absolutely indestructible. Duality ceases to exist; there is no ego, no “I”…It’s more as if the universe expands to fill the boundaries of the self.”
― Donna Tartt

“Maybe your boy went to school too long,” Mr. Robichaux advised. “They got plenty communiss in them colleges.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“The boy learnt too late that to infect a world is to be infected by the world.”
― Ben Okri, The Freedom Artist