Wonders Of Science Simplified. 1943.

‘A little light’, said the Jewish mystics, ‘drives away much darkness.’ And when light is joined to light, mine to yours and yours to others, the dance of flames, each so small, yet together so intricately beautiful, begins to show that hope is not an illusion… All I can say is what I feel: that the people I have met who have lit candles in other people’s lives have given me the strength to carry on.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l, To Heal a Fractured World p. 271

Is art resistance? Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil. But it seems to me that whatever else you do, it’s worth tending to paradise, however you define it and wherever it arises.

— Olivia Laing, from Funny Weather

Ace Double books from the late 50s and early 60s from my grandfather's collection.

each novel is doubled with the opposite cover.

Louise Glück, from an interview with poet in Poets & Writers

Peter Max (American, born Germany 1937), Two Hearts #14, 2001. Acrylic on paper, 19 x 26 in.

Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)

Lucy Liu on what she hopes people take away from her art