“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Glamour isn't beauty or luxury; those are only specific manifestations for specific audiences. Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific, emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them se…”— Virginia Postrel, theatlantic.com
“Basically, his opponent made a beginner's blunder; he gave Josh a piece on an error. The error that was so weirdly obvious, so big, that it was almost impossible for Josh to see. When you read the game now, it's simply mystifying. They were both embroiled in computations of this deep position, getti…”— Sam Sheridan, amazon.com
“[Amazing athletes] are at peace with failure or success; as [Peter] Schjeldahl wrote, they take 'an impersonal joy' in what they do. They see themselves from the outside, as impersonal constructs, which may lead to the oft-ridiculed referencing themselves in the third person.”— Sam Sheridan, amazon.com
“Everyone typically thinks that when you're intimately close to someone, like your husband or your wife or your mom or your dad, that it opens you up so much to all these powerful feelings of connectedness and enables you to understand the other person with such incredible empathy. But I really think…”— Mark Leyner, REAL HUSBAND, amazon.com
“Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying.”— The Joker, amazon.com
“...we each have this ridiculously finite number of things inscribed in our minds, and what we do, moment by moment, is continuously postulate an extrinsic 'world' for ourselves by reshuffling and recapitulating these ridiculously finite number of things. But it's a completely closed system—there's n…”— Mark Leyner, REAL WIFE, amazon.com