""Lemonade makes my whole body spicy.""
— Liam McMurray

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him."
— Jonathan Swift

"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"The most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid."
— J.D. Salinger (Nine Stories)

"Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life."
— Dorothy Parker

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. "
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

"Always be a poet, even in prose."
— Charles Baudelaire

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."
— Charles Baudelaire

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry."
— Emily Dickinson

"They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast)

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

"My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression."
— Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

"The new world, the communo-bourgeois, sermonizing, Tartuffian, automobilistic, alcoholic, gluttonous and cancerous world has only two anxieties: ass and bank account."
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
— Charles Bukowski

"She would of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."
— Flannery O'Connor (A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories)

"Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack."
— Flannery O'Connor (A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories)

"Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one."
— Flannery O'Connor

"I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing."
— Flannery O'Connor (The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor)

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
— Flannery O'Connor