the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommende… - Thornton Wilder

Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

"Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another.

The most exhausting of all our adventures is that journey down the long corridors of the mind to the last halls where belief is enthroned.