"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

"A good book is the precious
life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured
up on purpose to a life beyond life."
— John Milton (Areopagitica)

"I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted."
— L.M. Montgomery

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

"People like to talk shit, but it's usually to justify their own apathy."
— Shepard Fairey

"Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle."
— Vladimir Nabokov

"Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. "
— Rainer Maria Rilke