Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. - Saul Bellow
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun. - Wendell Berry
Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'. - Alain de Botton
I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile. - Tyler Knott Gregson