"Boredom makes you do crazy things."
— Jenny Holzer

"Being happy is more important than anything else."
— Jenny Holzer

"Expressing anger is necessary."
— Jenny Holzer

"The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back."
— Franklin P. Jones

"Going with the flow is soothing but risky."
— Jenny Holzer

"Beware of the deadly donky,
falling from the sky'
you can choose the way you live,
my friend,
but not the way you die."
— Edward Monkton

""But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.""
— Dennis Lehane (Darkness, Take My Hand)

"A lot of professionals are crackpots."
— Jenny Holzer

"A sense of timing is the mark of a genius."
— Jenny Holzer

"You should never look at the cup or glass as being half empty; see it as being half empty, then you will have mastered the test of greatness."
— Barbara Hart (The Lives of Abused and Battered Women)

"Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary."
— Jenny Holzer

"I thought I was dreaming. He kept telling me I wasn’t, but it felt like it was too good to be true. I knew it was too good to be true. Love was too good to be true. Especially our love. There were no complications, no problems, it was all too easy. I kept expecting to wake up.
But I didn’t wake up, my life continued. Wonderful. Peaceful. Everything I’d ever dreamed of having was right in front of me. Him."
— Alysha Speer

"Patent lawyers had only lately ascended to the aristocracy of the American bar. Trained not just as lawyers but as scientists or engineers, and working in small, specialized firms, they were at one time rudely dismissed by corporate lawyers as gearheads in green eyeshades, not good enough at science to be scientists, nor sufficiently talented at law to be real lawyers. Then came the intellectual property revolution of the 1990s, and these onetime outcasts found themselves ruling the last vibrant corner of the American economy."
— Paul Goldstein