Brian Engleman

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?”
― Robert Browning, Men and Women and Other Poems

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained