"Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path."

“...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something different from anyone else in the two families. It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.”

“Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words..”

“The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices, their artistic skills to purposes in which they themselves do not believe, and that it teaches [in the words of Leo Marx] 'the essential meaninglessness of all creations of the mind: words, images, and ideas.'”

“Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous.”

“Choices are at the root of every one of your results.”

“That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.”

“A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.”

Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.45, Granta Books

“I learned that you can't have any expectations with life. You never know what's going to happen.”

Source : "Best Actress Nominee Jennifer Lawrence Heats Up Winter’s Bone". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2011.