“ I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without… Harold Bloom
“ There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to them as we can. If we really did attempt to return to them, we would find Moses as well as Christ, Cal… Marilynne Robinson
“ Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin.… Kazuo Ishiguro
“ Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes. Rick Perlstein
