"There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths."

“In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.”

“Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.”

“I saw Food, Inc. last night--it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own.”

“It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the 'rock' bottom of the cosmos - the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness - from spirit to matter - from the highest high to the lowest low.”

Source : Jason Augustus Newcomb, Lon Milo Duquette (2004). “The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power”, p.14, Weiser Books

“Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.76, The Floating Press

“Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.8, New York Review of Books

“Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness”

“Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.”