The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
Edmund WilsonIn a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
Edmund WilsonOnly the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Edmund Wilson