"If real life were a book, it would never find a publisher."
— Jasper Fforde

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

"That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning."
— Orhan Pamuk