“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”— The Little Prince,
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (b. 29 June 1900)
Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980
“How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.”— Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive.”— Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven