“I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.” WritingEnergyNew YorkAbsenceYearningExcluded Author:Jonathan Lethem
“There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, ‘what are the causes of wealth?’” ShouldAsksEnergyCausesWealthPovertyAskingAbsenceCauses Of Poverty Author:Madsen Pirie
“You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode.” IfsThinkingWorldLoveFeelsWritingWellsKindMeanDreamEnergySpeakColdFishesAbsenceOddDeclineSymptomsWithout LoveExcludedLive WellCaricatures Author:Anita Brookner
“Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.” BelieveSoulActionEnergySolitudeAbsenceProvisionBoon Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes