Brian

“Roland thought, partly with precise postmodernist pleasure, and partly with a real element of superstitious dread, that he and Maud were being driven by a plot or fate that seemed, at least possibly, to be not their plot or fate but that of those others.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“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

“Prophecy is an abundance that comes to man from without, from a higher source.”
― Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, The Strife of the Spirit

“The Torah is teaching us that by keeping the Holy Torah, we receive Hashem’s blessings: Yevarechecha—Hashem blesses us and protects us. Yaeir—Hashem shines his face towards us and makes us favorable, in the eyes of other nations. Yisa—Hashem forgives us for everything that should not have happened and grants us true peace. And when the Kohanim mention Hashem’s name in these blessings, Hashem not only approves, but gives additional blessings of His own. (Based on Sichas Rosh Chodesh Sivan 5741; Sefer Hasichos 5751, vol. 1 p. 42)”
― Yosef Y. Alperowitz, Pearls for the Shabbos Table