J. J. (now on BookWyrm)

“Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Clearly, it is time we learned to meet our emotional needs without embracing the preposterous. We must find ways to invoke the power of ritual and to mark those transitions in every human life that demand profundity— birth, marriage, death—without lying to ourselves about the nature of reality. Only then will the practice of raising our children to believe that they are Christian, Muslim, or Jewish be widely recognized as the ludicrous obscenity that it is. And only then will we stand a chance of healing the deepest and most dangerous fractures in our world.”
― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

“These are the facts of pre-Code Hollywood. The story behind it is monumental, because it deals with struggle for power. The stakes were high: the billion-dollar market for America's sixth-largest industry. The market was mostly Protestant. The industry was mostly Jewish-run. Yet a Midwest Catholic minority gained control. This is the story of *Forbidden Hollywood.*”
― Mark A. Vieira, Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era [1930-1934]: When Sin Ruled the Movies