Very often I email myself quotes with no attribution or explanation so that I can feel a sense of rediscovery two months later when I take the time to track down their sources. Of course then sometimes the sources are lost.

“What more can we ask of a writer than that he draw us into the charmed circle of his obsessions?”

“The whole of social life rests on theological imagination, on acts of explicit or implicit worship of what stands beyond ourselves, of what we depend on. The connections we imagine ourselves into with other people and things weave around us with divine thread.”

“I found fun dip in one pocket and your NYPL card in the other.”