“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“Human beings often display emotion they do not feel. And they often feel emotion they do not display. That’s a description of me all right. I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn’t matter at all.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the on…”— James Joyce, amazon.com