Quote for Today: Umberto Eco
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is …
Quote for Today: Courtney Summers
There is nothing like discovering your own secrets in someone else’s story. Those thoughts and feelings you believed were too ugly or strange or idealistic or desperate or whimsical or …
Quote for Today: Elias Canetti
How unfair, he thought; I can close my mouth whenever I like, as tight as I like, and what has a mouth to say? It is there for taking …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #20: Street Artists, Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya via The Guardian
Day 20 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series takes us into the Mathare camp of Nairobi, Kenya, where street art seeks to teach a population living in extreme poverty and close …
Quote for Today: Miles Harvey
A map has no vocabulary, no lexicon of precise meanings. It communicates in lines, hues, tones, coded symbols, and empty spaces, much like music. Nor does a map have …
Quote for Today: Chase Jarvis
You’ve heard poets talk about poems flowing out of their bodies; painters, they get on a roll. You all have seen the musician, when they are in that state, the …
Quote for Today: James Jones
And the only way he had ever found, the only code, the only language by which he could speak and be heard by other men, could communicate himself, was with …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Safran Foer
“It’s so hard to express yourself.” “I understand this.” “I want to express myself.” “The same is true for me.” “I’m looking for my voice.” “It’s in your mouth.” “I …
Quote for Today: William Faulkner
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks …
Quote for Today: Marie Rutkoski
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and …