Barry Carter

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor