Top Highlights

• Life needed smoothness, but it also needed direction. One could not always be returning to the point of origin.
• For the majority of people, what they love exists only in the imagination. The object of their love is not the man or woman of reality, but what he or she is like in their imagination. The person in reality is just a template used for the creation of this dream lover. Eventually, they find out the differences between their dream lover and the templ...
• The turbulence was purposeless, but in huge quantities of purposeless turbulence, purpose took shape.
• “It’s a wonder to be alive. If you don’t understand that, how can you search for anything deeper?”
• What a literary character does in ten minutes might be a reflection of ten years’ experience. You can’t be limited to the plot of a novel—you’ve got to imagine her entire life, and what actually gets put into words is just the tip of the iceberg.”