Daniel Flanagan

“Your reading should be fun. We only call them literary works. Really, though, it's all a form of play. So play, Dear Reader, play. And fare thee well.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor

“We all love a good story, a concise explanation of how the world works. We all love an easy buck. Temptation has driven human folly for centuries, whether the serpent in the Garden of Eden or the market manias of cryptocurrency or artificial intelligence. Each wave seduces us into thinking that we’ve learned from history and, this time, we can’t be fooled. Then it happens again. This is how it happened in 1929.”
― Andrew Ross Sorkin, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation

“Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.”
― Eliud Kipchoge

“What good is it to be pretty?"

"Well. . . pretty things are rare in this life."

"But what good are they?"

"Well . . . pretty things . . . like flowers and sunsets
and rubies and pretty girls, too . . . they're like billboards telling us that life is good.”
― William Inge, Picnic