"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

"The truth will make you odd."
— Judy Blume

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
— Kurt Vonnegut

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
— Philip K. Dick

"Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to."
— Thomas Pynchon

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it"
— Alice Walker

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

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

"The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized yet."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

"Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

"Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight.

The camera obscura.

Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?"
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

"Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer."
— David Foster Wallace

"There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?""
— David Foster Wallace

"A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman."
— Tom Wolfe

"The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan."
— Mary Roach (Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers)

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."
— Carl Sagan

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe."
— Carl Sagan

"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
— Carl Sagan

"we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers"
— Carl Sagan

"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking..."
— Leo Tolstoy

"You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love."
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

"I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe."
— Jacques Derrida (Jacques Derrida)