JG

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties.”
― Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."

[From the Preface]”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters