“But that calm won't last long, you know. It's like beasts that never tire, tracking you everywhere you go. They come out at you deep in the forest. They're tough, relentless, merciless, untiring, and they never give up.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Now, when for the third time his fairy castle of perfect peace and pleasure seemed shaken to its foundations, when he again realized the uncertainty of life or death, he felt bewildered and wretched.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”— E. B. White, nytimes.com