Melissa

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis