Pantheon Books
March 2012
35 posts
“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
“In the 1980s I fell asleep at a meeting, and upon awakening, I discovered that my boss had appointed me the editor of a new magazine, Longevity. Our motto, ‘Some of us may never die,’ was soon contradicted by calamities suffered by the staff. The publisher, executive editor, art director, and the chief writer all died before the age of 60. The advertising director contracted a mysterious illness, and disappeared, as did the magazine itself, to the applause of a grateful nation. I was mercifully fired, for, among other things, suggesting a change in the name to Morbidity.”
— Dick Teresi, The Undead
“One writes not to be read but to breathe…one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one’s mind, to dissipate one’s fears, to face one’s doubts, to look at one’s mistakes - in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one’s joy, but also to disperse one’s gloom. Like prayer - you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to ‘grace’.”
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
