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“I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.”
― Craig Thompson, Blankets

“Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so. It is hardly too much to say that we all of us occasionally speak of our dearest friends in a manner in which those dearest friends would very little like to hear themselves mentioned, and that we nevertheless expect that our dearest friends shall invariably speak of us as though they were blind to all our faults, but keenly alive to every shade of our virtues.”
― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

“...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.”
― Steve Martin, Shopgirl

“Louie found the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the raft, no flavors on his tongue, nothing moving but the slow porcession of shark fins, every vista empty save water and sky, his time unvaried and unbroken, his mind was freed of an encumbrance that civilization had imposed on it. In his head, he could roam anywhere, and he found that his mind was quick and clear, his imagination unfettered and supple. He could stay with a thought for hours, turning it about.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. “No, we can’t do that.â€� “No, that’s not in the budget.â€� “No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar.â€� What kind of way is that to live?”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:
"He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

“from the beginning, through the
middle years and up to the
end:
too bad, too bad, too bad.”
― Charles Bukowski, Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems

“An empty man is full of himself.”
― Edward Abbey

“There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.”
― Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World

“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Most sane human beingsâ€� chances of being alive in a thousand yearsâ€� time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I reckon if you care for someone and you can't have their love, you can either be a spiteful bastard about it or you can try your damnedest to make sure they're going to find some happiness in the world.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Encrypted

“Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“24 carat gold is a pure naturally occurring yellow metal. There are 4 basic shades of gold alloys: yellow gold, white gold, rose gold and green gold. A huge range of other colored golds are also possible including red (gold and copper), grey (gold, iron and copper), purple (gold and aluminum), blue (gold and iron) and black (gold and cobalt), depending on the amounts of different metals alloyed together.”
― Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically by the Metal Horn Unicorns

“Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed.

'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed.

Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art or about the flies Orr saw in Appleby's eyes. he had Orr's word to take for Appleby's eyes.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Crazy by definition is
Knowing that true sanity is
A figment of the educated mind”
― Caleb Warta/Ritter, My Sanity: The Ramblings of a Mad Man

“Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom."

~ "The Hole”
― Guy Burt

“To broaden one's prospective is to push back the swirling winds of ignorance.”
― Joel T. McGrath

“I don't write to be understood; I write to understand.”
― Robert Cecil Day-Lewis

“People lose sight of their dreams, only to hold tight their fears.”
― Gustave Geyer

“‎The stars are like the trees. Each one reminds us that we should still the greed in our heart. Each tree, each star, teaches us the ways of peace.”
― Alfred Yuson

“Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There ain't half been some clever bastards”
― Ian Dury, Hallo Sausages: The Lyrics of Ian Dury

“I care little for titles assigned to men, rather I care about the spirit of men.”
― Paul Erik Van Schaick

“Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'!”
― W. O. Wainwright, The Adventures of Joey Zee

“How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“My world is about stories that entertain; emotions that move; people you’ll remember; literature that matters.”
― M.G.Crisci