"If you donâ€™t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject for anybody who thinks they ought to understand whatâ€™s happening around them but is put off by the usual dense text and economics jargon."

-- Diane Coyle

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“I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.”
“It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'”
“One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.”
“I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.”

Source : "High Infidelity". Interview with Holly Millea, www.elle.com. December 11, 2008.
“You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.”
“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”
“I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing.”
“I'm trying to write every day if I can. I think the idea is to try and chip away at it as opposed to just sit down one day and then turn it on like a flick of a switch and expect everything to happen.”

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