Heimaey Map Quotes & Sayings

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. — Anthony Burgess

I've told you before, Daniel: roach isn't an insult. We're the ones still standing after the mammals build their nukes, we're the ones with the stripped-down OS's so damned simple they work under almost any circumstances. We're the goddamned Kalashnikovs of thinking meat. — Peter Watts

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind. — Henry David Thoreau

A worthy old scholar, criticising the king's penmanship, pointed out a fault. He, smiling, erased the word, but when the critic was gone, began to restore it, remarking that it was right, but it was better to spoil paper than the self-confidence of an old man. — Flora Annie Steel

We are all cabinets of wonders. — Brian Selznick

Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked. — Kate Christensen