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

“History, largely experienced previously as a series of natural disasters, could now be seen as a movement in which everyone could potentially enlist.”
― Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the Present

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

“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