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Marita Bonner: You can, when...

Marita Bonner: You can, when...

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet -- at your full height -- at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why ....

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Kingsley Amis: If you can't...

Kingsley Amis: If you can't...

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Source: From...

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J R R Tolkien: His house was...

J R R Tolkien: His house was...

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: I plunged into...

Mary McLeod Bethune: I plunged into...

I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing . . . Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Next to God...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Next to God...

Next to God we are indebted
to women, first for life itself,
and then for making it
worth...

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Alain Locke: The Younger Generation...

Alain Locke: The Younger Generation...

The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks,...

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Emile M Cioran: There is no...

Emile M Cioran: There is no...

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Source: The New...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Men are even...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Men are even...

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional...

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Benedict Spinoza: If facts conflict...

Benedict Spinoza: If facts conflict...

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Uttering a word...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Uttering a word...

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Source:...

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Henry Kissinger: The nice thing...

Henry Kissinger: The nice thing...

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their...

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Malcolm Bradbury: The English are...

Malcolm Bradbury: The English are...

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

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Italo Calvino: The unconscious is...

Italo Calvino: The unconscious is...

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a...

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Italo Calvino: The catalogue of...

Italo Calvino: The catalogue of...

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When...

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Italo Calvino: A classic is...

Italo Calvino: A classic is...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Source: Why...

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E L Doctorow: We're always attracted...

E L Doctorow: We're always attracted...

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and...

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Franz Kafka: I think we...

Franz Kafka: I think we...

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Source:...

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Lewis Carroll: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Lewis Carroll: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly!
Like a teatray in the...

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Agatha Christie: The human mind...

Agatha Christie: The human mind...

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will,...

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Kingsley Amis: I wish I...

Kingsley Amis: I wish I...

I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered...

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