John Grisham

"for a brief moment in time money and calories don't matter, you don't have a job or loved ones or a home, and you feel suddenly compelled to buy a stupid magazine or a John Grisham novel like it's 1999"

"It's incredible how in living memory we all managed to spend time on things stimulating to the human being - talking, reading, etc. This was in the 80s and 90s, well after deregulation and within the mass travel era. Even people who came home from work and watched TV for hours would read a John Gris"