Catching Quote by Michael Chabon

“There is a kind of crystallization in the circumstances of one’s life. A peculiar turn of mind draws to itself events fitted to its…

— John William Polidori

“Components of his experiences seemed to break down, sorting into hard facts, like a series of crystals, as if they could be arranged, made…

— Brent Hayward

“My thinking, far from being clearer than a crystal, was tortuous. I would read the same passage over and over again only to realize…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Perhaps, I thought, whenever we began to breathe the breath of others, when the spinning atoms of their bodies began to mingle withour own,…

— Alan Bradley

“Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was;…

— Shirley Hazzard

“He walked on down the dark, empty street. Suddenly an idea came to him. Immediately, with his whole being, he knew it was true.…

— Vasily Grossman

“Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it…

— Roddy Doyle

“Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.”

— C.S. Lewis

“It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind from thought…

— Victor Hugo

“The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.”

— Danielle Rohr

“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“All these observations fascinate us, and fill us with an intense desire to know more about the nature of these phenomena.”

— Nikola Tesla