Book Hyperdrive

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“The truth is that sending your parent to the past is unlikely to make them see the error of their ways. Physicists refer to this phenomenon as the Boomer Father Paradox, which was originally posited by Austro-Hungarian logician Kurt Gödel, who wrote in a 1931 monograph that “he’s never going to fucking change, no matter what. He’s just going to keep pulling the same damn shit forever.” In layman’s terms, what this means is that your parents are incapable of growth. You can spend millions of dollars, rupture space-time, and taser the heck out of them, and they won’t learn a thing. It’s a foundational law of the universe.”
― Simon Rich, Glory Days: Stories

“The way I see it, people with brilliant minds are not particularly well suited to writing novels.”
― Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye