McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Saint Teresa of Avila

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

William Hazlitt

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Agnes Smedley

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

Thomas Fuller

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

Koichi Tanaka

Clary made fun of him about his new look; but, then, Clary found everything about Simon's love life borderline hilarious.

Cassandra Clare

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

Jerry Rubin

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

John Flavel

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

English Proverb

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

W. C. Fields

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

Woodrow Wilson

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.

John Green