Quote by Sarah Vowell

“If people saw each other as depositories of experience and as valuable as antiques, maybe then we would treasure each other.”

— VD

“Even after three hundred maps have been handed out, Ama and I still melt the moment people switch from being suspicious that we want…

— Becky Cooper

“There was the honour and austerity of money as he walked through art galleries, as he saw around him the collections of oil paintings…

— Lydia Millet

“Old people often have unknown treasures in their homes, and I had often wondered what valuables the old man might have sitting around: original…

— Todd Robinson

“These valuable thing produced in us a feeling of intimidation. We knew that no matter how far we got in life, we would never…

— Nicole Krauss

“I have no longing for great wealth. For great adventure, yes, to travel widely and love deeply these things I value more than profits.…

— Julie Klassen

“If people as valuable as antiques, maybe then we would treasure each other.”

— VD

“And trade is art, and art's philosophy, In Paris.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“What else can be bought and sold unobtrusively and is worth that much? Diamonds, maybe, but they’re in Antwerp, not Hamburg. Drugs, maybe, but…

— Lee Child

“Great art, I've always felt, is like a pearl; thousands of layers of creativity and sensibility built up around an inner core of money.”

— K.J. Parker

“If people saw each other as valuable antiques, maybe then we would treasure each other.”

— VD

“There is treasure buried in the field of every one of our days, even the bleakest or dullest, and it is our business, as…

— Frederick Buechner