"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
— Woody Allen

"To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition."
— Woody Allen

"It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel."
— Woody Allen

"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
— Salman Rushdie

"Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane."
— H.P. Lovecraft

"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
— H.P. Lovecraft

"It's because of people like you that people like me need therapy."
— Morton Hurley

"I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright."
— Jonathan Ames (My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays)

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
— William Gibson

"The street finds its own uses for things."
— William Gibson

"Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated."
— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

"Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change."
— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

"You can't lie to your soul."
— Irvine Welsh (Porno)

"That's just how time travel looks like to the untrained eye. The reason why there aren't more travelers is that your average physicist refuse to be eaten by a giraffe in the name of science."
— Bradley Sands (It Came from Below the Belt)

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."
— Franz Kafka

"Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying"
— Gerard Way

""I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately." "
— Tom Waits

"To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.."
— H.P. Lovecraft

""And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.""
— William Shakespeare (King Lear)