"Hello, babies. Welcome to earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you have about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of–

God damn it, babies, you’ve got to be kind."
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater)

"...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it..."
— Frank O'Hara (Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series))

"Somewhere between God and the Devil passion is and the way there is sudden and the way back is worse."
— Jeanette Winterson (The Passion)