""Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn." "
— Kevin Brockmeier (The View from the Seventh Layer)

"People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically."
— Kevin Brockmeier (The View from the Seventh Layer)

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose."
— Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain)

"That which you manifest is before you."
— Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain)

"The car goes where the eyes go."
— Stein, Garth