"Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind"

“There's no wrong time to make the right decision.”

“If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.”

“Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.”

“Freedom for the working class!”

“Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.”

Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.”

“I'm gonna make sure everybody get their justice. This the year for business, this the year for my book, this the year for the movie and this the year for getting even. I'm on my way.”

“New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”