"Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?'"
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

"The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

"And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?"
— Elizabeth Gilbert

"According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

"The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted [...] To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business--not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything else is flaking away into . . . rhetoric and plot"
— Elizabeth Gilbert

"There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"God dwells within you, as you."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

"I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted."
— Terry Pratchett

"I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel."
— Terry Pratchett

"Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words."
— Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

"No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?"
— Terry Pratchett (Night Watch)

"… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

"I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat.
-Lord Vetinari"
— Terry Pratchett (The Truth)

"We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything."
— Terry Pratchett (Night Watch)

"In the words of the philosopher Scepturn, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?"
— Terry Pratchett (Night Watch)

"My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat."
— Terry Pratchett

"It's still magic even if you know how it's done."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

"There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
— Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man)

"Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise."
— Terry Pratchett

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."
— Terry Pratchett (The Last Continent)

""The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." "
— Terry Pratchett Diggers

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

"If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."
— Terry Pratchett

"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."
— Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
— Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."
— Terry Pratchett (Moving Pictures)

"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.
The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?
And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye. "
— Terry Pratchett (The Truth)

"Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four."
— Terry Pratchett (Interesting Times)

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

"HAPPINESS [is] ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED"
— Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"It can hardly be a coincindence that no language on earth has ever produced the expession "As pretty as an airport." "
— Douglas Adams (The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)