
After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage, —
Neal Stephenson

What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead. —
Joshua Ferris

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds. —
Debbie Ford

Why is it that people who talk the most sometimes have the least to say? —
Katie Kacvinsky

We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities. —
George W. Sears

But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither. —
Nathanael West

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency —
Plato

How do you like them apples, you piece of shit? —
Patrick Ness

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger. —
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Their smiles were cracking. Glass is brittle. —
Robert Bloch