"I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished."

“Don't Stop when you are Tired. Stop When You are Done.”

“I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen moments, already dangerously distorted by the wisdoms of maturity.”

Source : Penelope Lively (2006). “Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived”, p.9, Penguin UK

“The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization”

“A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.”

Source : How Buildings Learn ch. 3 (1994)

“Drugs and alcohol are not my problem — reality is my problem. Drugs and alcohol are my solution.”

Source : "Russell Brand: my life without drugs" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

“I haven't met a rich technician”

“The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.”

“So often the most meaningful moments in our lives are those that we share with our families. Treasured memories are created by celebrating, sharing and embracing the moments of life with the people we love.”