“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.”— Frank Zappa, brainyquote.com
“I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they watched and what music they listened to, wanted to look under their beds and in their secret drawers and night tables and inside the pockets of their coats.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com