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“For love is immortality.”
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“The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.”
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“If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.”
Source : Elif Batuman (2010). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.290, Macmillan
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“English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.”
Source : George Mikes (2016). “English Humour for Beginners”, p.7, Penguin UK
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“Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.”
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“If we give out thoughts of grouchiness and complaining, etc., we'll find more to complain about. If we send out love and affirm 'life loves me', then we are drawing experiences to ourselves that prove it's true.”
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“One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?”
Source : "Frances Mayes travels the globe (sort of), not forgetting about Italy" by Jeanne Cooper, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2006. 
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“I'm weird. I still believe that when you do good deeds, you get something back in return. That's why I really enjoy helping other guys succeed.”
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“I am providing a service that many people obviously value.”
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“I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.”
