It’s just a thing. You deal with it." "As in, one damn thing after another?""Yes, very like.

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

Her secret? It is every artist's secret--passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials.

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.

But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.

The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!