Ivan

“All men by nature desire to know.”
― Aristotle, Metaphysics

“I guess there are never enough books.”
― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore