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

"Listen up -- there's no war that will end all wars."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
— Ernest Hemingway

"The first draft of anything is shit."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Write drunk; edit sober."
— Ernest Hemingway

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
— Jack London

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."
— Jack London

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring barque,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
— William Shakespeare (Great Sonnets)

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
— Mark Twain

"Often it seems a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."
— Mark Twain

"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."
— Mark Twain

"The Rumors of my Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated."
— Mark Twain

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
— Mark Twain

"I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!"
— Emily Dickinson