Jared Houston

“He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“We have come to the church, Sancho.”
― Cervantes, Don Quixote

“But does it make any difference now?" he thought. "And what will be there, and what has been done here? Why was I so sorry to part with life? There was something in this life I didn't and still don't understand...”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”
― Matthew Arnold