Alex

“While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.”
― Alexander Pope, The Dunciad

“I felt I was slumming, in my own life. My task was to ward off the drivel (I felt I was drowning in drivel)—the jovial claptrap of classmates and teachers, the maddening bromide I heard at home. And the weekly comedy shows festooned with canned laughter, the treacly Hit Parade, the hysterical narratings of baseball games and prize fights—radio, whose racket filled the living room on weekday evenings and much of Saturday and Sunday, was an endless torment.”
― Susan Sontag

“You can disagree without being disagreeable.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby