Quote by Paul Theroux

“It is difficult, sometimes even impossible, to value what cannot be named or described, and so the task of naming and describing is an…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Under what circumstances would those who are the beneficiaries of colonialism stop denying and choose to act differently?”

— Paulette Regan

“I realized that it was precisely because of America’s glaring imperfections that I should seek to participate in its progress, carve a place in…

— Eboo Patel

“They founded a society based not upon currency and commodities but on the elementary notion that if you failed to raise enough to eat,…

— Shirley Abbott

“Oh, misanthropy and sourness. Gary wanted to enjoy being a man of wealth and leisure, but the country was making it none too easy.…

— Jonathan Franzen

“No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.”

— Irvine Welsh

“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from…

— Edmund Morris

“And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only been defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.”

— Isaac Marion

“What place indeed is there in the shallow petty frivolous thing called society for noble thoughts and feelings?”

— Honoré de Balzac

“But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.”

— Michel Houellebecq