"Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and I be lying Each within our narrow bed."

“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”

“When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them and the thief? Darn little! They hide behind the excuse that they're legislating democratically. The fact they do it by a majority vote has no moral significance whatsoever. Numerical might does not constitute right, no more than a lynch mob can justify its act because a majority participated.”

“Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.”

“The night ... it is filled with ***** watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting in ash and smoke, roaming the apocryphal cities, the cities of speculation and reconstituted disorder, of insemination and incipience, swept round with the dark.”

“A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 521, 1895.

“We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.”

“Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.”

Source : "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.

“I think it's a tragedy that our schools don't teach kids about money. I think it's a tragedy that it has to come to an emergency before we evolve.”