Luc De Coster

“Most people wait for their parents to die with a mixture of tremendous sadness and plans for a new swimming pool.”
― Edward St. Aubyn

“Sleep democratizes fear. The terror of a lost shoe or a missed train are as great here as those of guerrilla attack or nuclear war.”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.”
― Frans de Waal, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

“Here is someone not set up for life's working out poorly, let alone for the impossible.But who is set up for the impossible that is going to happen? Who is set up for tragedy and the incomprehensibility of suffering? Nobody. The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy-that is every man's tragedy.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral