“ Rising up, rising down! History shambles on! What are we left with? A few half-shattered Greek stelae; Trotsky's eyeglasses; Gandhi's native-spun cloth, Cortes' pieces of solid gold (extorted from the… William T. Vollmann
“ Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there. David Mitchell
“ In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it w… Joan Didion
