Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself. Joseph Brodsky Read Quote
I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn’t let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I’d damage the door by opening it too many times. Wendi Deng Murdoch Read Quote
I don’t like to read books where I feel as though I’ve stepped into the middle of things and don’t know what’s going on. I like to see characters I’ve met before, but I don’t want to feel left out because I haven’t read other books in the series. Jude Deveraux Read Quote
When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my ‘museum’. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades. Kevin Crossley-Holland Read Quote
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear. Frank Ocean Read Quote
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays. Beth Henley Read Quote
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children. Letty Cottin Pogrebin Read Quote