Quote by Lev Grossman

“How much happier the wide-awake indolents, the monarchs among men, the rich monstrous brains deriving intense enjoyment and rapturous pangs from the balustrade of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with…

— Asa Gray

“A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye ranges freely…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the Museums.”

— Jeremiah Walton

“It had grown cold in the night but he was numb with other weathers. An equinox in the heart, ill change, unluck. Suttree held…

— Cormac McCarthy

“something that at first sight appeared to be the luminous bones of some massive, extinct creature, now disinterred, with its ribs gathered into a…

— Mike McCormack

My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.

— John Phillips

“Difficulties illuminate existence, but they must be fresh and of high quality.”

— Tom Robbins

“Science begs literature to develop wings.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“There's something about these obscure vignettes of former lives that's very powerful. Our woods are full of old cellar holes, tumbled-down chimneys, ancient scraggly…

— Leslie Land

“...it had bred false camaraderies and drawn my attention to deep flaws and fault lines when what mattered--what matters so often in the course…

— Michael Chabon

“nebulous and milky, like light from an old, old star.”

— Gail Honeyman