"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car." Garrison Keillor

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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

Then you read a book or you take a trip and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.

The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness.

The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure.

That is all.

It appears like an innocuous illness.

Monotony, boredom, death.

Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it.

They work in offices.

They drive a car.

They picnic with their families.

They raise children.

And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.

Some never awaken.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934, Anaïs Nin

I love books, by the way, way more than movies.

Movies tell you what to think.

A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

Movies show you the pink house.

A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front.

My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with.

Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies.

That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.

Darkfever, Karen Marie Moning

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy $#!# we dont need. Tyler Durden

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"Divorce is like getting into a car accident; everybody knows it happens all the time, but nobody ever thinks it will happen to them." - Anon.

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