Eimi

“A Government can create nothing. It cannot by any exercise of its powers, by legislative enactment, or judicial decree, or executive command, cause two blades of grass to grow where one grew before....It cannot command a tree to fall in the forest, and divide itself into planks and boards, from which chairs and tables may be made. All these results can be accomplished only by the labor of human hands.”
― Bourke Cockran

“It [The Great Gatsby] has interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen, either English or American, for a number of years....it seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James.”
― T. S. Eliot

“I believe celiac disease is a very serious ailment, and if you’re diagnosed with it, I’m pleased that there are now gluten-free options, but these people who are treating gluten as, you know, an equivalent of Al Qaeda are worrying to me.”
― Anthony Bourdain

“[Fitzgerald's] latter work represents essentially best qualities of chivalry and decency now too often lacking in the English themselves.”
― Malcolm Lowry, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place