I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn’t find it frivolous. Gillian Flynn Read Quote
You don’t have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate. Sharon Salzberg Read Quote
Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject. Amity Shlaes Read Quote
You can’t make everybody love you. It’s an exercise in futility, and it’s probably not even a good idea to try. Robert Crumb Read Quote
I haven’t studied history – I couldn’t give a discourse in medieval literature – but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me. Lucy Dacus Read Quote
There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different. Mark Kirk Read Quote
I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news… it’s become a mental recession. We don’t have measured negative growth. That’s a fact, that’s not a commentary. Phil Gramm Read Quote
