Bennie Tennett

“That was travel, she supposed. A dance across surfaces to see the face of everything and learn the meaning of very little.”
― Thomas Keneally

“The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“unconscious but powerful identification of violence against other human beings as the most appropriate response to the disastrous conditions of their lives.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son