Brian

“On the threshold of sixty,’ mused Dr. Parnell. ‘That’s a good age for a man to marry. He needs a woman to help him into his grave.”
― Barbara Pym, Some Tame Gazelle

“But Beauty—unless she is wed to something more meaningful—is always superficial.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“And there’s no point in me doing anything if I can’t write about it,” I continued. “It would be like . . . walking ten miles without my Fitbit on—a complete waste. I mean, I do do things I don’t write about: I use the bathroom, I have sex, but I try to be quick about it.”
― David Sedaris, Themes and Variations

“On the other hand, there are people who seek a certain reality in religion and in doing so reach different sorts of supernatural experiences – inner experiences that give one a feeling of reality, accompanied by perceived unnatural phenomena, which science cannot (or does not wish to) explain.”
― Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, The Strife of the Spirit