key to winning the race is not to compete against machines but to compete with machines.

Because people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World.

Everything I ever learned, I learned from books.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Written By Elizabeth Bowen