Ex Libris Quotes

“agnostic means all things are possible, even God. This world is so strange, anything may happen or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, more futuristic kind of world. It makes me more tolerant.”
― Michiko Kakutani, Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule,” she wrote, “is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Michiko Kakutani, Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread