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“As I speak, blood is coursing through our bodies. As it moves away from the heart it marches to a 2/4 or 4/4 beat and it's arterial blood, reoxygenated, assertive, active, progressive, optimistic. When it reaches our extremities and turns home--the heart--well, it's nostalgic, venous blood (as in veins), it's tired, wavelike, rising and falling, fighting against gravity and inertia, and it moves to the beat of a waltz, a 3/4 beat, a little homesick now, and full of longing.”
― Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
― Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“August 20, the feast day of Bernard of Clairvaux.”
― Valley of Bones
― Valley of Bones
“It is one of the most detestable habits of a Liliputian mind to credit other people with its own malignant pettiness.”
― 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1
― 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1
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