"You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true."

“Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple…when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us…”

“As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.”

“Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them”

“Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.”

“Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.”

“... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world to which it refers in a manner parallel to fingerprints or footprints or the rings of water that cold glasses leave on tables. The photograph is thus generically distinct from painting or sculpture or drawing. On the family tree of images it is closer to palm prints, death masks, the Shroud of Turin, or the tracks of gulls on beaches.”

“Summer fades; the first cold, Northern air Sweeps, like hatred, through still days - The August heat now gone elsewhere, To Southern, bird-filled coasts and bays; Amid constricting vales of cloud, A pale and liquid Autumn sun That once beat down on an empty plain And may again. And may again.”

“England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.”

Source : Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.28, Arcade Publishing