August 16, 2011
"It comes to this, that the individual has no way to prove out what’s in his heart—I mean the love, the hungering for the external world, the swelling excitement over beauty for which there are no acceptable terms of knowledge. True knowledge is supposed to be a monopoly of the scientific world-view. But human beings have all sorts of knowledge. They don’t have to apply for the right to love the world."

— Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift