A Prediction

And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.
--George Saunders

Dance

When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.
--Paulo Coelho

Stillness

We have forgotten how to be alone in our thoughts. All the best work comes out of that rich stillness of waiting.
--Meg Hutchinson

Generation

The torch has been passed to a new generation.
--John F. Kennedy

Hope To Say

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
--E.B. White

Time Has Come

Comprehensive health insurance is an idea whose time has come in America.
--Richard Nixon (special message to Congress on February 6, 1974)

Superfluous

It's the superfluous for which we live.
--Bertolt Brecht

Now

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now.
--Doris Lessing

Happy

Having an enviable career is one thing, and being a happy person is another.
--Bill Watterson

Nature

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
--E.B. White

Enough

So let us go on, cheerfully enough,
this and every crisping day,
though the sun be swinging east,
and the ponds be cold and black,
and the sweets of the year be doomed.
--Mary Oliver

Market Forces

One of the greatest acts of neoliberal hypnosis over the past 40 years has been convincing almost everyone in mainstream politics, conservatives and liberals alike, that it was both fiscally prudent and morally necessary to subject the entire public sphere to "market forces."
--Andrew O'Hehir

Prestige

Prestige is especially dangerous to the ambitious. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, the way to do it is to bait the hook with prestige. That's the recipe for getting people to give talks, write forewords, serve on committees, be department heads, and so on. It might be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. If it didn't suck, they wouldn't have had to make it prestigious.
--Paul Graham

War

War is like love: It always finds a way.
--Bertolt Brecht

The More

The more someone knows about any given subject, the likelier he is to include a lot of boring, hard-to-follow caveats, complicating factors and exceptions in discussing it.
--Tim Kreider

Imperfect

I refuse to accept that the only good response to an imperfect technology is to abandon it.
--Alexis C. Madrigal

Attention

The poor, compared with the wealthy, have keenly attuned interpersonal attention in all directions.
--Daniel Goleman

News

If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." It's when something isn't in the news, when it's so common that it's no longer news--car crashes, domestic violence--that you should start worrying.
--Bruce Schneier

Complexity

The complexity of things--the things within things--just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
--Alice Munro

Home

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
--James Baldwin