Elyon

“When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tup and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank into sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Hemorrhoids. Cockroaches. Anal warts. Lonely nights. Smoking's ravages. AIDS. All the ads promised relief from these things, but where was the relief from these ads?”
― George Dawes Green, The Caveman's Valentine

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal”
― Thomas S. Monson

“I know of only one serious thing on this earth, the growing of grapes.”
― Voltaire