When you love something like reading—or drawing or music or nature—it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something great. If you are lucky enough to know this, then your search for meaning involves whatever that Something is. It’s an alchemical blend of affinity and focus that takes us to a place that feels as close as we ever get to ‘home.’ It’s like pulling into our own train station after a long trip—joy, relief, pleasant exhaustion... If a writer or artist creates from a place of truth and spirit and generosity, then I may be able to enter and ride this person’s train back to my own station. Anne Lamott