Incident Power

Famous quotes containing the words incident and/or power:

“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)