Book: The Golden notebook

Great people too large to be disturbed. They are already developing ways of colonizing Venus, and from day to day, they will build irrigation facilities on the moon. And we're pushing boulders. All my life we, you and I, put all our strength, all our talent to push a huge stone to the top of the mountain. The stone is the truth which the great instinctively known, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind. We push the rocks.

Five single women who are quiet, alone, going crazy, despite the presence of her husband and children or rather because of them. The quality inherent in all of them: self-doubt. Guilt - because they do not feel happy. A phrase that sounded in the speech of each of them:"I must have something not right."

I remember saying to myself: "That's it, that's what happiness is", but at the same time, I was amazed that it grew out of so many misfortunes and so many deformities.

The real reason why so many artists were involved in politics, "serving" something, etc., is that they rushed to find order, any order which will protect them from poison, infused into them, when the enemy says the word "artist".

In Europe a person sleeps per night for a couple hours and gets happy. And here we sleep in and with great difficulty...

Never read books from a false sense of duty, or due to the fact that they belong to some kind of course or direction. Remember that book that you think is boring in twenty or thirty years, will open its doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and Vice versa.

Children are taught to obey authority, learn to seek out the opinions of others and learn about other people's solutions, learn how to quote and comply with the standards. They are prisoners of the ideas and dogmas of his time.