The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.
Paul AusterEvery generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
Paul AusterEach man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: โEvery living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universeโ
Paul Auster