Wit & Wisdom

“The trouble about man is twofold: He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”

Rebecca West, quoted in The Wall Street Journal

“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”

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Charlotte Brontë, quoted in the Associated Press

“People worry about kids playing with guns or watching violent videos. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands, of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery, and loss.”

Nick Hornby, quoted in the Toronto Star

“The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves.”

Shirley MacLaine, quoted in HuffingtonPost.com

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”

Robert Louis Stevenson, quoted in The Daily Telegraph (U.K.)

“The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is forgetfulness.”

Alice Walker, quoted in the Monterey County, Calif., Herald

“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”

D.H. Lawrence, quoted in The Walrus