"At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture."

-- Jonathan Carroll

#Book Quotes #Boston Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“It is the mind that makes the body.”
“Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.”
“His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars, "Rest, rest, and rest again.”
“One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.”
“If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and youâ€™d know it all already. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and live your whole life in every way as well as you can: exercise regularly as part of your daily routine, avoid obesity, donâ€™t drink too much, donâ€™t smoke, and donâ€™t get distracted from the real, basic, simple causes of ill health. But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.”
“In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.”
“All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better”
“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.”

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