Quote of the Day

From Brooklyn-based Paul Auster, author of The New York Trilogy, one of my favorite novels of all time (though this quote is pulled out of his newest novel, Man in the Dark):

"At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry, sobing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in silence for so long, this good woman who refuses to believe she's good, for only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves."

- Man in the Dark (2008), Henry Holt Publishing