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“Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.”
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“In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.”
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“Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.”
Source : "Dani Shapiro: 7 Places Where Your Pain Hides" by Dani Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013. 
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“The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world.”
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“[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.”
Source : Mary Mapes Dodge (1875). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.34
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“I think being from Iran sharpened my eye as an art dealer. This is why, today, I think the true definition of so-called postmodernism is the acceptance that we cannot go by old models any longer. The old models were based upon a single narrative of development that happened along a singular path. In the 20th century, you have electricity, you have transportation by plane, you have the telephone and all the various media that developed, you have a multiplicity of events and voices and creativities that are happening all around the world-and that multiplicity escalated after the war.”
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“Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.”
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“The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.”
Source : Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”
