Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.
- Margaret Atwood
Second-hand American was spreading over him in patches, like mange or lichen. He was infested, garbled, and I couldn't help him: it would take such time to heal, unearth him, scrape down to where he was true.
- Margaret Atwood
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.
- Samuel Johnson
to be about helping people discover what they can't get anywhere else.