Valentin Nicolae

“misshapen economy creates misshapen individuals and a misshapen society”
― Joseph E. Stiglitz, People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent

“Some of the most influential novels of recent years, by Rachel Cusk and Karl Ove Knausgaard, take the method of self-conscious first-person testimony to a new level. Their more extreme admirers will tell you that imagination and invention are outmoded contrivances; that to inhabit the subjectivity of a character unlike the author is an act of appropriation, even colonialism; that the only authentic and politically defensible mode of narrative is autobiography.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: A Provocative and Necessary Look at the Human Condition and Our Changing World

“So what you’re saying is, Ideas have to have a source of energy too.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“My father called swimming “the elixir of life,” and certainly it seemed to be so for him: he swam daily, slowing down only slightly with time, until the grand age of ninety-four. I hope I can follow him, and swim till I die.”
― Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales