Authors

Jane Austen

"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."

Ramona Ausubel

"The quiet that followed was desperate, starving, rabid. No one moved. We were a houseful of statues, discarded for imperfections."

Kevin Avery

"Elliott Murphy was Paul Nelson’s rock & roll dream incarnate. The singer-songwriter’s music was rooted as much in literary traditions."

John Avlon

"One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism."

Catalin Avramescu

"The savage who views death with a strange indifference is anything but the timorous man of the state of nature."

Eve Babitz

“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a garden.”

Alain Badiou

"All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself."

Beryl Bainbridge

"The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour."

Nicholson Baker

“A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.”