S'il n'existait pas Dieu, il faudrait l'inventer.
--Voltaire

Water is taught by thirst.
--Emily Dickensen

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.
--Robert Frost

When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.
--Dom Helder Camara

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
--Albert Schweitzer

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
--Edmund Burke

What if a family of upright fish lived above my ceiling?
--Patrick E. Orlob

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
--George Bernard Shaw

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
--Herman Hesse

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
--Vergil

Love your enemies.
--Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:44)

In the long run we are all dead.
--John Maynard Keynes

Ahead today, a body tommorrow.
--Darrell Moore

The truth is no man's property.
--Hjalmar H. Boyesen

Pop culture is a pedophile's delight.
--Alex Ross

God is fired!
--Ted Berrigan

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
--Paul (Galatians 5:14)

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.
--Franz Kafka

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
--Epicurus

Yet when each of us in his own heart looks
He finds the God there, far unlike his books.
--Fulke Greville

The artificial is always innocent.
--Frank O'Hara

Thank God I'm still an Atheist.
--Luis Bunuel

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned
--Frank O'Hara

No order could exist in which every person in it received everything he desired all the time. The system that gives us our existence depends on people making sacrifices.
--Orson Scott Card

Gott helfe mir, ich kann nichts anders.
--T. H. Huxley

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
--Joseph Conrad

Dire sight it is to see some silken beast long dally with a golden lizard ere she devour. More terrible, to see how feline Fate will sometimes dally with a human soul, and by a nameless magic make it repulse a sane despair with a hope which is but mad. Unwittingly I imp this cat-like thing, sporting with the heart of him who reads; for if he feel not he reads in vain.
--Herman Melville

This is funny.
--Doc Holliday's last words

It is absurd to dissect a poet's brain to find the cause of his sonnets; his cortex undeniably had to exhibit specific brain-wave patterns to produce a sonnet, but they have evaporated and been carried to a realm hidden by time.
--Dodie Bellamy

you will start a band.
you will start a magazine.
you will start a family.
you will finish nothing.
--Nicole Blackman

Thus richer than untempted kings are we,
     That, asking nothing, nothing need.
Though lord of all what seas embrace, yet he
     That wants himself is poor indeed.
--Richard Lovelace

Really I began the day
Not with a man's wish: "May this day be different,"
But with the bird's wish: "May this day
Be the same day, the day of my life."
--Randall Jarrell

This cop told me, furthermore, that it had been difficult for him to follow me because I had signalled too soon. I told him that, because I didn't know there was anyone else in the world, any signalling was an act of faith.
--Kathy Acker

There is no point in reading a realistic book or watching a realistic movie when you have realistic reality right in front of your nose.
--Zeb Haradon

What does not die deserves to live.
--Donald Revell

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
--Saint Ignatius

Dreams and fictions have in common the ability to condense being into narratives of felt meaning. Finding other, more specific meanings beyond such understanding obviously serves certain purposes relevant to immediate social life, politics, psychoanalysis, criticism, the study of authors and literary periods, and so on; so the point is not to deny that there are other kinds of meaning or to lament that they get attached to dreams and fictions. But all of them are at best incidental to the real purposes of storytelling and dreaming and why they have persisted as involuntary exercises of the imagination from the beginning of history.
--Burt O. States

Look down on me, you will see a fool. Look up at me, you will see your lord. Look straight at me, you will see yourself.
-- Charles Manson

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
--Theodore Roethke

Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle.
--Jelaluddin Rumi

As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.
--Fyodor Dostoevsky

My stories weren't made for the sober, lad.
--Rob Hanshaw

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
  Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
--Catullus

Difficilis, facilis, iucundus, acerbus es idem.
  nec tecum possum vivere nec sine te.
--Martial

The only difference between a crazy person and me is that I'm not crazy.
--Salvador Dali