Connecting
"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its
own shame."
~Oscar Wilde

"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature,
music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls
and interesting people. Forget yourself."
- Henry Miller

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost
possible degree."
- Ezra Pound

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the
necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this
respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
- C.S. Lewis

"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human
society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the
truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart."
- Salman Rushdie