"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know. "
— Groucho Marx

"I would prefer not to."
— Herman Melville (Bartleby The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street)

"I try all things, I achieve what I can"
— Herman Melville (Moby-Dick, or The Whale)

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."
— Woody Allen