Ilisha Newhouse Quotes

#1. I'm not used to people sticking around when things go bad," she said, by way of explanation.

Alexander Freed

#2. When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.

Louise Erdrich

#3. Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

Barry Hughart

#4. We're in danger of losing a huge piece of our cultural inheritance to thugs and looters, if we haven't lost it already.

R.A. Mathis

#5. I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.

Charles Baudelaire

#7. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

Laura Mullen