Writers and Editors

“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot."
~ Czeslaw Milosz

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?
~ Rabbi Hillel

"I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."
~ from William Faulkner's banquet speech, on receiving the 1949 Nobel Award for Literature

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
~ Andre Gide