Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Jean Paul Richter

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Jim Morrison

I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

Carlos Fuentes

This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me.Not sex.But me.

Diana Peterfreund

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Paul Gauguin

But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

Katie Couric

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Grandma Moses

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Baruch Spinoza

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.

Jimmy Fallon