Paula Tohline Calhoun

“Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash.”
― M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

“I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.”
― M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party