Boris

“Life, Love, libraries, have no future”
― Nabokov Vladimir

“Space-time" - that hideous hybrid whose very hyphen looks phoney.”
― Nabokov Vladimir

“As students of the silver screen recall, Bogart's admonition about future regret led Bergman to board the plane and fly away with her husband. Had she stayed with Bogey in Casablanca, she would probably have felt just fine. Not right away, perhaps, but soon, and for the rest of her life.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“Perhaps the strangest thing about this illusion of control is not that it happens but that it seems to confer many of the psychological benefits of genuine control. In fact, the one group of people who seem generally immune to this illusion are the clinically depressed, who tend to estimate accurately the degree to which they can control events in most situation.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness