November 04, 2004

Quotable

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock ...
Harry Lime (Orson Welles) in The Third Man. Take this, print it, tape it above your computer screen. Don't think for a moment that you should give up.
posted by Laila Lalami at 12:00 AM