“What shall I do with all my books?” was the question; and the answer, “Read them,” sobered the questioner. But if you cannot read them, at any rate handle them and, as it were, fondle them. Peer into them. Let them fall open where they will … If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.
-- Winston Churchill Thoughts and Adventures (1932)
I wish to have one copy of every book in the world.
-- Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)
Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or a word will hurt much more. As much as a bullet. … I can’t get upset about “offensive to women” or “offensive to blacks” or “offensive to Native Americans” or “offensive to Jews” … Offend! I can’t get worked up about it. Offend!
-- Jamaica Kincaid
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
-- Heinrich Heine
Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.
-- Amendment I, U. S. Constitution
Metchosin, Vancouver Island, August 2006
This is looking south over the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the late after noon. The sun is behind the camera. Why are the rays converging toward the horizon?
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