Do You Have An Artist In The Family?

"Today, no American family can be secure against the danger that one of its children may decide to become an artist." --Garrison Keillor (born 1942), host of A Prairie Home Companion on public radio. (Quoted in The Theatre Quotation Book: A Treasury of Insights and Insults, collected and edited by Russell Vandenbroucke, Limelight Editions, 2001.)

Samuel Delany On The Importance Of Beauty

Science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany in a post on his Facebook page (September 20, 2021 @ 6:36 am) wrote what I think is a very wise comment, one that deserves to be printed, placed in a picture frame, and hung in a prominent spot.

"Beauty in the world," wrote Delany, "is supported because we have all experienced things that were not beautiful and even painful, which is why what is beautiful is so valuable."

Barack Obama Quotes Ernest Hemingway At John McCain's Memorial Service

I love the following quote:

"Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today."--Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Former U.S. president Barack Obama quoted the above passage in the eloquent eulogy he delivered at U.S. senator John McCain's memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral, Saturday, September 1, 2018.

Can you imagine Donald Trump, a man who doesn't read, quoting Hemingway or any other writer, American or otherwise?