"Relationships are like apples: they can be sweet and satisfying. But once you bite into a bad one, it's hard to go back to the barrel again."

“[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He is to be heard first and read second. Well, what about plays, you could reasonably ask. Is [William] Shakespeare not great literature? Yes, obviously: but his work is great literature even to those who have never known it performed. The same is evidently not true of Dylan.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

“They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men they themselves were before Pearl Harbor. Among MacArthur's ardent infantrymen were cooks, mechanics, pilots whose planes had been shot down, seamen whose ships had been sunk, and some civilian volunteers.”

“Who's world is this, the world is yours.”

“We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be.”

“One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.”

Source : Helen Merrell Lynd (2013). “On Shame And The Search For Identity”, p.255, Routledge

“You can't 'cope with' change anymore than you can 'manage' stress.”

“I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.”

“What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh?”