GARY ALONY

“The Village would remain the center of the black community in Manhattan through the 1800s, home to the first successful black theater and black newspapers in the country.”
― John Strausbaugh, The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village

“The candle aimed its spear of light at Heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine. The candle grew shorter and shorter.”
― John Steinbeck, The Short Novels of John Steinbeck

“Know that it is wrong to take a passage out of its context and then draw inferences from it. Rather, one should take into consideration the sentences that precede and follow the passage to understand the writer’s meaning and intent before making any deductions. If”
― Maimonides, Epistle to Yemen and the Thirteen Principles of Faith: Rambam's Letter to the Jews of Yemen on the Messiah, Astrology, the History of Israel, and the Thirteen Principles of Jewish Faith

“He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll