Howard Cruz

“Tall arched Windows filtered in light from all sides, while creepy winged gargoyles leared from the top, waiting for someone with a wand to bring them to life. Inside, thousands of visitors a day chose from among six million books, for their proof that books would survive catastrophic events alongside the roaches.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead

“Experience can't be reduced to a 4x6 inch still," her mother says. "People stick their loves in cellophane prisons. They incarcerate images. Then they put these cemeteries on coffee tables. They're mockeries.”
― Kate Braverman, A Good Day for Seppuku: Stories

“Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves. Once this is understood, the disagreeable behavior of American enlisted men in German prisons ceases to be a mystery.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“Certainly, if we live in the past, we will be depressed. If we live in the future, we are guaranteed anxiety. Now is always fast and new. Like any practice, it's not about technique or program. It's a decision.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship