"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
— Aristotle

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it."
— Leo Tolstoy

"Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all."
— Sarah Vowell

"I don't drink water. Fish fuck in it."
— W.C. Fields