Matthew Gallant

“Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist’s ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals.”
― Sam Inglis, Harvest

“You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“It is at this point in the book that the author famously laments that despite our ability to bring food from the earth, we are incapable of creating a system in which the hungry can be fed.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Μιλώντας στην κόρη μου για την οικονομία

“I don't mind worriers," I said. "Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down