"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

""i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people""
— Marge Piercy

"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
— Henry Miller

"Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it."
— Henry Miller

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say."
— Anaïs Nin

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

"But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to...nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)