“It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.” ThinkingTryingLyingNightDarknessAirMinesQuietGardenWindowPoliceSpreadRussiaDeliciousGlimpseSpyNightingalesRestful Author:Maxim Gorky
“I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.” IfsTryingUniverseLevelsMake SenseGlimpseNaive Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.” WritingTryingKindMayBookUseOrderSidesIntellectParadoxUsualGlimpse Book:The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention