Coffee falls into the stomach ... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop ... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Jean Paul

The more respect that objects, customs, or laws are given, the more attentively you must question the right these things have to this respect.

Leo Tolstoy

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

Friedrich Nietzsche

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

James Fenton

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

W. Clement Stone

The truth of the story lies in the details.

Paul Auster

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

Peter Lynch

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

Bodhidharma

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Andre Gide

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

Sigmund Freud

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

Lydia Maria Child

My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.

Walter Matthau