"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

"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

"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)

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
— Mark Twain

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

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
— e.e. cummings

"Sometimes our flame goes out, but is
blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
— Albert Schweitzer

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

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it by not dying."
— Woody Allen

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
— Anaïs Nin

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."
— Woody Allen

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
— Oscar Wilde

"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
— Willa Cather

"Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am."
— Henry Miller (Stand Still Like the Hummingbird)

"To perceive is to suffer."
— Aristotle

"We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."
— Stephen Jay Gould (The Mismeasure of Man)

"When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuosly until death do them part"
— George Bernard Shaw

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
— Francis Bacon

"CALVIN:
As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight."
— Bill Watterson

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

"HOBBES:
Virtue needs some cheaper thrills."
— Bill Watterson

"I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God."
— Orson Welles

"Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it.
How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: the Italian Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages.
...
The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check.
And between the big events, the earthquakes and the tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

"Silly Rabbit. Trix are for Kids."
— Trix

"Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious,timid, or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is."
— Henry Miller (Stand Still Like the Hummingbird)

"She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on."
— Kate Atkinson (Case Histories: A Novel)

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
— John Berger

"L'éternité, c'est long... surtout vers la fin."
— Franz Kafka

"It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all."
— Katherine Min (Secondhand World)

"Toby: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now."
— Aaron Sorkin

"The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness"
— Michael Chabon

"BRODIE:

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA."
— Kevin Smith

"Sin sorpresas, aunque sean disagredables, nadie estaria dispuesto a vivir."
— David Olguin

"AZRAEL:

No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air. "
— Kevin Smith

"The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and june these elemental presences lived and had their being..."
— Henry Beston (The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod)