"What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common...."

“What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Travelers should only read after dark.”

Source : Robert Harbison (1977). “Eccentric Spaces”, p.8, MIT Press

“Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart....”

“Hi,' I said, and I hugged her. I missed her more now that I actually had her in my arms than when I hadn't.”

“When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.”

Source : "Loleatta Holloway, Gospel and Disco Singer, Is Dead at 64" by Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2011.

“Manchester United will be hoping their bench can come off the bench”

“I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.”

“Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.”