Julia H.

“It is enough to say that the Greeks thought it was Chaos who, with a massive heave, or a great shrug, or hiccup, vomit or cough, began the long chain of creation that has ended with pelicans and penicillin and toadstools and toads, sea-lions, lions, human beings and daffodils and murder and art and love and confusion and death and madness and biscuits.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. ”
― Marcel Proust

“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22