If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

John Lardner

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

Virginia Woolf

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Geoffrey Chaucer

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

Tommy Lee Jones

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

Jonathan Safran Foer

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

Henry Miller

We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.

Joseph Addison

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

Wendell Berry

A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time.

Source Unknown

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.

Ernesto Sabato

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Diane Abbott