“My time of the year, November. The month when I re-read books, leaf through papers, gather notes. It’s a kind of hunger for work, for activity, for taking up all the old tasks once again. And that damp organic smell in the morning when I go out — and the warm halos of lamplight in the evening when I return …”

—Mihail Sebastian

“It is a kind of love, is it not?

I’ve been thinking about the patience of ordinary things.

And towels drink the wet

from the skin of the back.”

—Pat Schneider

“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”

— James Baldwin

“I partake of the sun.”

—Rebecca Lindenberg

“I want real things. Live people to take hold of, to see and talk to. Music that makes holes in the sky. I want to love as hard as I can.”

— Georgia O’Keeffe