"There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk."
— Tom Waits

"Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them."
— Joseph Heller (Catch-22)

"If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away."
— Seanan McGuire (Rosemary and Rue)

"And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

"It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane."
— Philip José Farmer

""Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?" (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207)"
— Christopher Paolini

""But let me tell you something, Harrigan - sooner or later City Hall is gonna catch up to your action, and they're gonna render unto your scofflaw holy-rollin' ass. I only hope I'm there when it happens""
— Stephen King