Famous quotes containing the words jen, catholic and/or university:
“When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can do where you’re never bored.”
—Gish Jen (b. 1956)
“You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)