What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.

-- Tarjei Vesaas, The Bridges

Two birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered.

-- Santosh Kalwar, High Fidelity

When you argue with reality, reality always wins

-- Adyashanti, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

Be innovative.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

Without a vivid picture of what you want, how can you reach it?

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Daily reading is vital for own self development.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

-- Aldous Huxley, A Happy Death

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

-- Joseph Brodsky, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

-- Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

-- Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

-- Oprah Winfrey, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.

-- Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.

-- Cheris Kramarae, Life After God

No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.

-- Harold Bloom, When You Were Mine

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

-- Niall Williams, History of the Rain

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

-- William Goldman, The Princess Bride

I write--because I must write.

-- Taryn A. Taylor, 王子の帰還 [Ouji no Kikan]

You can’t possibly be afraid of trees.

-- Tara Janzen, Avenging Angel

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

-- Sarah Sundin, The Winner's Crime