Alan Dershowitz

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence. The threat of fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

Joseph Coelho

December is a bewitching month. The grey of cold teases to explode into something worthwhile, into a dream of cold, a starlight shower you can taste, a cold that does not chill.

Roman Payne

It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly burns our sun!

Bill Skarsgård

I think December has always been the most haunted month, from the gothic-narrative point of view. A lot of Edgar Allan Poe stories are set in December. It’s the last month of the year, and it’s supposed to be sort of this mystical, spiritual month. And being Swedish, December is also the darkest month out… Lees verder Bill Skarsgård

William Bartram

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

May Sarton

O cruel cloudless space, and pale bare ground where the poor infant lies. Why do we feel restored as in a sacramental place? Here mystery is artifice, and here a vision of such peace is stored, healing flows from it through our eyes.