John Beynon

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
― Angela Davis

“The officious swagger in her gait might have been some flavor of self-possession or the cool skedaddle of a shoplifter making for the door. In either case, the streamer of toilet paper that trailed from the waistband of her tiny skirt like the banner of an advertising airplane pretty much spoiled the effect.”
― Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue

“What made you wanted was nothing you did, it was something that you had, and how could you ever tell whether you had it?”
― Alice Munro, A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994

“And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina