Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.

Ben Gibbard

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

William James

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

Susan George

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

John McGahern

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.

Anne Frank

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Evelle Younger

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom... For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

Peter Abelard

He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak when Harry wanted to rage and storm at him.

J.K. Rowling

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson