Love in the Time of Cholera, pg 166-167

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich.

"No, not rich," he said. "I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Love in the Time of Cholera, Pg 166-167

Goodbye, Mick Flannery

"Not to make it all sound vain You lay the man you lay his name but lay no claim." --Mick Flannery, Goodbye

Interview in Paris Review, Faulkner

"Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling."

--William Faulkner, Interview in Paris Review

What's bred in the bone, pg 328-329

"You work under the wing of the Devil, do you?"
"I must, if I am to work at all. Christ would have had no time for a man like me. Have you noticed how, in the Gospels, He keeps so resolutely clear of anybody who might be suspected of having any brains? Good-hearted simpletons and women who were little better than slaves, those were His followers. No wonder Catholicism had to take a resolute stand in order to include people of intellect and artists; Protestantism has tried to reverse the process. Do you know what I should like?"
"A new revelation?"
"Yes, that might come of it. I should like a conference to which Christ would bring all His saints, and the Devil would bring all his scholars and artists, and let them have it out."
"Who would judge the results?"
"That's the sticker. Not God, certainly, as the father of both leaders."

--What's Bred in the Bone, pg 328-329, Robertson Davies

Sexing the Cherry, pg 115

"Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?"

--Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry, pg 115

Revolutionary Road, pg 327

"She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank nor anyone else had ever had to teacher her: that if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone."

--Richard Yate, Revolutionary Road, pg 327

Human Parts, pg 133

"If she had been growing out of date and living with someone she loved, who was also growing out of date, she wouldn't have minded at all. She understood that it was inevitable to grow out of date; the question was how and with whom.

--Orly Castel-Bloom, Human Parts, pg 133