The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange. (Walt Whitman)

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

Walt Whitman

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