Louie > Louie's Quotes

“The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“The burning red taste of blood floods my mouth. The sparkle of life sprays out of his cells like citrus mist from an orange peel, and I suck it in.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.”
― Colson Whitehead, Zone One

“Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either--he had long ago made a pact with himself to postulate a Created Universe on even-numbered days, a tail-swallowing eternal-and-uncreated Universe on odd-numbered days--since each hypothesis, while equally paradoxical, neatly avoided the paradoxes of the other--with, of course, a day off each year for sheer solipsist debauchery.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“He played Sarah McLachlan. For the rest of my life whenever I'd get a latte or see a sick dog, I'd think about my hymen.”
― Matt Fraction

“La petite mort' and 'la grande mort' within ten seconds of each other—coming and going in the space of three short breaths.”
― Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1

“Take life seriously but none of the people in it.”
― Kurt Vonnegut