In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling…

“All I know is, I had no idea my captain already took possession of the ship’s small arms. By the title I discovered the…

— Robyn Bennis

Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the…

— Pat Conroy

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

— Pat Conroy

“I had come to Charleston as a young boy, a lonely visitor slouching through its well-tended streets, a young boy, lean and grassy, who…

— Pat Conroy

“It was my father who called the city the Mansion on the River. He was talking about Charleston, South Carolina, and he was a…

— Pat Conroy

Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

— Russell Baker

To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment…

— Norman Lamm

We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the…

— Margaret Atwood

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living…

— S. Jay Olshansky

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all…

— Martin Amis

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship,…

— John Ortberg

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil