"Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing." Gore Vidal

"Keeping busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed." Joyce Carol Oates

"I never change, I simply become more myself." Joyce Carol Oates

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.” ― Joyce Carol Oates

"Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists." Corliss Lamont