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“It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.”
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“I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m sayin’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America.”
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“Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.”
Source : "The Letters of Samuel Palmer". Book edited by Raymond Lister, Oxford, Letter to Thomas Oldham Barlow (1876), 1974.
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“It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.”
Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.
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“Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.”
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“The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”
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“The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,†she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.”