"I suppose when there's no more room for another crow's-foot, one attains a sort of peace?"

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“The world is so disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.”

“He had something of the air, if one can imagine such a combination, of a witty and decadent Red Indian.”

“I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.”

“Oh! help me, heaven," she prayed, "to be decorative and to do right!”

“On we read, confusing the characters with the incidents and neglecting the outcome, but tickled by the images and the turns of the talk. It is frivolous stuff, and how rare, how precious is frivolity! How few writers can prostitute all their powers!”

Resonant Thoughts

"I can say with truth that I have never, even in times of greatest preoccupation with carnal, worldly and egotistic pursuits, seriously doubted that our existence here is related in some mysterious way…"

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Journalism1903–1990

#time

"I really don’t like the practice of outing people who haven’t outed themselves. It’s horrendously cruel and insensitive to that particular person’s own needs. The fragility of the human heart is somet…"

— Margot Kidder

Entertainment1948–2018

#Human Nature

"There are skies we have not seen yet! There are whole realms still unvisited by us. We will not be penned in even a giant's pen. We fly!"

— R. A. Lafferty

Literature1914–2002

#writing

"I think that if we are going to reform the world, and make it a better place to live in, the way to do it is not with talk about relationships of a political nature, which are inevitably dualistic, fu…"

— Robert M. Pirsig

Literature1928–2017

#Human Nature