“A room laughing would not be well described as dry. We might even classify laughter as a bodily fluid.”—M. Leander Kalil

“If, out of the blue, I started speaking a poem, I offer, / they’d have to reckon with its flitting presence, the way..."—Mónica de la Torre

“To come to my senses means accepting the plasticity of the brain—its capacity to change its structure and function because of input and experience.”—Dinah Ryan

“After shooting what I assumed were ten Iraqi soldiers, I got up and re-read the description to try to understand what was going on." —Sky O'Brien

“Photography hasn’t gone anywhere, it’s just been reconfigured."—Joanna Zylinska

“‘On Becoming a Cop Hater’ remains the only one of Didion’s Saturday Evening Post columns never republished in her essay collections. Why did she choose to shed it?” —Scott Saul

“What soon becomes clear to the visitor is that the garden’s sculptures are pointedly non-monumental follies.”—Joe Milutis

“A.J. Liebling compares the Gazans in their liminal zone to ‘people trapped in a submarine at the bottom of the sea’” —David Reid

“I could have started out with an Olympia, or a Smith-Corona. Instead, it was a 1953 Remington Quiet-Riter.” —Marius Sosnowski

“But if Silicon Valley has its way, phones will soon be your grandma’s way of seeing the world.” —Jeff Hewitt

“Without fail I would find Dave sitting exactly where I saw him last, perched at the west-end of the bar beside the telephone where he watched it all play out...” —Peter Koch

"To think Napoleon Hill or Robert Kiyosaki has anything to teach these people about courage or mental fortitude diminishes the integrity of their struggle." —Henry Staley

“Where is the other world hidden beneath this one? Where are we hiding it beneath words and ego and capital?" —Hannah Liberman

“This, ultimately, is what makes the show seem so revolutionary... this is art that makes the viewer look, and more importantly, makes the viewer feel." —David Freedlander