Patrick Cabeza

“The tragic asymmetry of contemporary American life is this: the Right often punches above its weight in politics but yearns for cultural power. The Left owns the culture but constantly pines for political power.”
― Fareed Zakaria, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

“What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers?”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”
― Margaret Lee Runbeck

“Lincoln motioned for Hay to join him in the President’s office. It was Hay’s self-appointed task to keep Lincoln moving when he tarried too long with visitors. Hay could never understand Lincoln’s endless patience with even the most audacious of bores or boors. “They get so little, most of them,” Lincoln would say, as if in explanation of the time wasted.”
― Gore Vidal, Lincoln