Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.
Edward AbbeyMusic endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
Edward AbbeyThe "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
Edward AbbeyThat which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
Edward Abbey