One Great Moment

"During six Sundays, he never varied his routine, faithful as a migratory mallard, his route taking him through a neighborhood of apartments that all seemed to be dying of boredom."

“During six Sundays, he never varied his routine, faithful as a migratory mallard, his route taking him through a neighborhood of apartments that all seemed to be dying of boredom.”

—Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen
"I think of myself as a humble student trying to get better and just lucky to still be getting chances to do it.”

“I think of myself as a humble student trying to get better and just lucky to still be getting chances to do it.”

—Actor Jeff Goldblum in an interview with New York Times reporter Kathryn Shattuck
"What is beyond grief?"

“What is beyond grief?”

—University of Washington marine researcher Deborah Giles
"But the sea, too, took its toll."

“But the sea, too, took its toll.”

—Jason Horowitz of the New York Times, reporting on deadline about the deadly wildfires outside Athens, Greece

“Gary Robinson died hungry.”

—Pulitzer Prize winning crime reporter and novelist Edna Buchanan

“She’s just telling what’s real out there that she sees.”

—Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Anne Tyler on discovering Eudora Welty

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

—First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
"You can't hit or write your way out of a shadow."

“You can’t hit or write your way out of a shadow.”

—Rob Hiassen, editor at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland
"They have to do everything the men did, except backwards and with ideals."

“They have to do everything the men did, except backwards and with ideals.”

—Amanda Hess, New York Times Critic's Notebook June 12, 2018

“A singing bagpipe joined the wind in the pines.”

—Former Oregonian outdoor columnist Bill Monroe