Why fleest thou throughe the worlde?

“One purpose of a liberal arts education is to make your head a more interesting place to live inside of for the rest of your life.”

– Mary Patterson McPherson, President, Bryn Mawr College

Charles Simic in the NYRB

“My own inordinate interest in what the lunatics are up to in every corner of our planet has to do with my childhood.”

Goodbye Serenity,  12/5/2011.