I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.

Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.Description of Provincetown, Massachusetts

Norman Mailer

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Georges Canguilhem

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

One expected growth, change without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

Charles de Lint

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.

Kahlil Gibran

They were married before they were friends, which is another way of saying:Their marriage was the occasion of their friendship.They were married before they noticed many small differences in background, aspiration, education, ambition. (...)Noting such differences, Leah was in some sense disappointed in herself that they did not cause real conflict between them. It was hard to get used to the fact that the pleasure her body found in his, and vice versa, should so easily overrule the many objections she had, or should have had, or thought she should have had.

Zadie Smith

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

Hector Hugh Munro

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

LeRoy Neiman

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

John Updike

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every part about us; and I believe the story of Argu simplies no more, than the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated, were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself.

Addison, Joseph

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Peter Drucker