A biography for Jessamyn Westhasn’t been written yet.
“There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.”
“The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”
“Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.”
“We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.”
“The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.”
“Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.”
“If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.”
“The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.”
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
“Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.”
“A big iron needle stitching the country together.”