Stephen

“All publicity works upon anxiety.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“A book for me! I can read it. I can smell it. I can keep it forever.”
― Aliki, How a Book Is Made

“Thus we become less and less able to reside with even the most fleeting uneasiness or discomfort... This is our way of trying to make life predictable. Because we mistake what always results in suffering for what will bring us happiness, we remain stuck in the repetitious habit of escalating our dissatisfaction.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“His own deism allowed for a God who, having made the world, did not participate in the working out of its ends, whose management of human destiny only inherited in his allowing the patterns and values established by His will to work themselves out in human affairs. Lincoln's response to his own question is to change his tone and focus.”
― Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer