This was an impulse read because it was staring at me from a library shelf and I’m glad that I saw it. Very quick book, best parts ahead.

“Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That’s what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.”

“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”
“Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work.”
“It is easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the color of our kids’ eyes, the way a melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live.”

Anna Quindlen won a Pulitzer so I guess she’s allowed to write a book that you can read in ten minutes. Pick it up if you come across it.