Matthew

“Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.”
― W.H. Auden

“Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“The process by which money is created is so simple that the mind is repelled.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
― W.H. Auden