Gordon Lo

“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
― Marcel Proust

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

“What's past is prologue.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest