Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. Quotes

“A Clear Midnight”

This is thy O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased,
the lesson done,
Thee fully fourth emerging, silent, gazing,
pondering the themes thou lovest best,
Night, sleep, death, and the stars.

-Walt Whitman”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.

“No matter what she said publicly, the principal of North Hammond High did not believe in rehabilitation for the young. It was too expensive, and its results were unreliable. Recidivism was high. Better to accept that with a few exceptions the young were an accursed generation, frontal lobes stunted from video games, cell phones, TV, sex-gratification by the hour. They had no sense of history and so could have no sense of the future. Equipped with state-of-the-art”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.