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- No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Premature Burial
- Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), The Story Girl
- People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - )
- I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
- Warren Buffett (1930 - )
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, first line
- Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Heart of Darkness
- What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- The old lie; Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland) - Wilfred Owen, Poem: Dulce et Decorum est.
- All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
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