"Beautiful thing, the destruction of words. "
— George Orwell

"But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may."
— D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover)

"If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell."
— Beverly Cleary (Ramona's World)

"I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever happens to him."
— Hunter S. Thompson (The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time)

"Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world."
— Marisha Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics)