"Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live"
— Bertrand Russell (Why I Am Not a Christian & Other Essays on Religion & Related Subjects)

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

"A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence. "
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
— Thomas Jefferson

"We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people."
— Ayn Rand

"A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends."
— Ayn Rand

"One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding."
— Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion)

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
— Elie Wiesel

"We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes - one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way."
— Christopher Hitchens

"I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody "
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground & The Double)

"We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground & The Double)

"In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine."
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)