Mengejek adalah cara yang sangat tidak menyenangkan untuk menyatakan kebenaran. - Lillian Hellman

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

It was in that tree that I learned to read, filled with the passions that can only come to the bookish, grasping, very young, bewildered by almost all of what I read, sweating in the attempt to understand a world of adults I fled from in real life but desperately wanted to join in books. (I did not connect the grown men and women in literature with the grown men and women I saw around me. They were, to me, another species.)