Mac Carey

“Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes like blood.”
― John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle

“The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“The soul is one's own affair from the beginning to the end. What is the soul? When I was a child I thought it was a little ghostly bean, kidney-shaped. I don't know why. Now I think of it as the man I am with when I am alone.”
― Margery Allingham, The Tiger in the Smoke

“To those of us who study history not merely as a warning reminder of man's follies and crimes, but also as an encouraging remembrance of generative souls, the past ceases to be a depressing chamber of horrors; it becomes a celestial city, a spacious country of the mind, wherein a thousand saints, statesmen, inventors, scientists, poets, artists, musicians, lovers, and philosophers still live and speak, teach and carve and sing.”
― Will Durant