Anthony Ruta

“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
― André Maurois

“We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner