Book: What is Stephen Harper Reading?: Yann Martel's Recommended Reading for a Prime Minister and Book Lovers of All Stripes
Quotes of Book: What is Stephen Harper
We're all busy. Meditating monks in their cells are busy. That's adult life, filled to the ceiling with things that need doing. {It seems only children and the elderly aren't plagued by lack of time-and notice how they enjoy their books, how their lives fill their eyes.} But every person has a space next to where they sleep, whether a patch of pavement or a fine bedside table. In that space, at night, a book can glow. And in those moments of docile wakefulness, when we begin to let go of the day, then is the perfect time to pick up a book and be someone else, somewhere else, for a few minutes, a few pages, before we fall asleep. book-quoteArt is water, and just as humans are always close to water, for reasons of necessity {to drink, to wash, to flush away, to grow} as well as for reasons of pleasure {to play in, to swim in, to relax in front of, to sail upon, to suck on frozen, coloured and sweetened}, so humans must always be close to art in all its incarnations, from the frivolous to the essential. Otherwise we dry up. book-quote