"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."
— Terry Pratchett (Thief of Time)

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
— Jerome K. Jerome

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
— Charles M. Schulz

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
— Bertrand Russell

"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
— Logan Pearsall Smith

"One Can't Have Wisdom Without Living Life"
— kianoush

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
— Anaïs Nin

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
— Robert Frost

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."
— Joss Whedon

"Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck."
— Joss Whedon

""Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping ... waiting ... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir ... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us ... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love ... the clarity of hatred ... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead." "
— Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)