Faith Popcorn, born Faith Plotkin

American is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy – how we buy it – we’ll change who we are.

Good | Happy | Kindness | Love | Miracles | Past | Prayer | Time |

Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation.

Love | Forgive |

Gustave Flaubert

She was standing bolt upright. With big flaming eyes she looked down on him with a severe, almost terrible expression. Then tears came and made a mist in them, her shell-like eyelids drooped, she surrendered her hands.

Woman |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again next time.

Fear | Need |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Every bachelor is a hero to some married woman.

Fear | Reason |

Hannah Arendt

When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.