"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
(Translation: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.)"
— Blaise Pascal (Pascal's Pensees)

"Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.' "
— Doris Lessing (The Golden Notebook)

"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"The president said some words, like nouns and verbs. "
— Ze Frank

"Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)"
— Blaise Pascal (Pascal's Pensees)

"Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business."
— Ze Frank

"Generalized statements ... which instill nebulous fear without specific information are exactly in line with the goals of terrorism. "
— Ze Frank

"As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone."
— Brian Celio