By what criterion… can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, – how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends? – Chauncey Wright
Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again. – Madison Smartt Bell
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum… they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment. – Kelly Wearstler
Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends. – Robert Gottlieb
A number of things in ‘Dhalgren’ are just meant to function as mysteries. They’re mysteries when the book begins, and they’re mysteries when the book ends. – Samuel R. Delany
