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— Ralph Waldo Emerson, http://daringfireball.net/2007/11/dum ¶“If you would know how a man treats his wife and his children, see how he treats his books.”
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— Adam Freedman, Clause and Effect ¶“The best way to make sense of the Second Amendment is to take away all the commas (which, I know, means that only outlaws will have commas). Without the distracting commas, one can focus on the grammar of the sentence.”
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— Philip Davison, The Long Suit ¶“For now, the closest either of us could get to recovering anything was an earnest attempt at making sense of what it was we did. To put a frame around it. Give it structure. Call it having a job. Call it a fresh start. Fresh ran contrary to vague, and that could only be a good thing.”
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— John Crowley, The Solitudes ¶“It didn’t seem to him, though, on this morning in the Faraways, such an unfortunate thing, that kind of small-town determinism. True, he had himself clambered out of it as fast as he could and into the Great World seeking growing-room and air to breathe; but he had in fact languished in the city, not growing but shrinking over time into a strange form of invisibility.
Almost no one that he’d known there knew anyone else he had known, and so to each new acquaintance Pierce was able to present a separate and partial character, an ad hoc personality specially adapted to the circumstances (bar, bookstore, Brooklyn) but too flimsy to support more than a single other person at close range…”