Tim Michaels

“To the untrue man, the whole universe is false”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Complete Novels

“life is trying to say something no one hears.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“the very reading of a worthy book is a delicious joy,”
― Frank Parsons, The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays