Elizabeth

“Anyone reading this book will take in as much information today as Shakespeare took in over a lifetime. Researchers in the new field of interruption science have found that it takes an average of twenty-five minutes to recover from a phone call. Yet such interruptions come every eleven minutes—which means we’re never caught up with our lives.”
― Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.”
― Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

“All these young French poets, like the rest of the people, lived for the joy of living in its sublimest form, the creative joy in work.”
― Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe