October is more than just my native month; it is my native country, and the time in which I have always been most at peace and (paradoxically for a time associated with haunts, dying vegetation and the dying year) felt most alive. – “The October Country”
An authoritarian government enacted by election is much worse than one produced by a coup, because while the latter can have little credible pretense of legitimacy, the former can represent itself as fully legitimate and claim the “right” to do whatever awfulness it wants because “the majority wills it”. –
“The Veneer of Legitimacy”
It is not the job of libraries to enforce parental censorship choices; that is the job of parents. – “Garden of the Muses“
