"Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords."
— Richard Brautigan

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
— Ray Bradbury

"Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way."
— Ray Bradbury

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
— Lewis Carroll

"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)

"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. "
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'"
— Lewis Carroll

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."

"I don't much care where –"

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"Curiouser and curiouser."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)

"Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)

"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Some people have a way with words....some people....not have way."
— Steve Martin (Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life)

"It's pain that changes our lives."
— Steve Martin (Shopgirl: A Novella)

""Or is it that I think too much?"

(from The Pleasure of My Company)"
— Steve Martin

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
— Anatole France