"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
— David Foster Wallace

"Better a good journalist than a poor assassin."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world."
— Franz Kafka

"When people are finding meaning in things -- beware."
— Edward Gorey (Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey)

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

"I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me."
— David Foster Wallace (A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments)

"Hell is yourself too."
— Robert Crumb