"Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil."

“And they all have pretty chilrden, And the children go to school, And the children to go summer camp, And then to the university, Where they are put in bozes And they come out all the same. - Malvina Reynolds”

“A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.”

“I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.”

“Thus shadow owes its birth to light.”

Source : John Gay, O. F. Owen (1857). “The fables of John Gay illustrated”, p.96

“I remember as a kid being cold a lot, and hungry sometimes. Wed go to bed with just cornbread and milk, and I remember wearing shoes with holes in the bottom. I remember having twine for shoestrings.”

“Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.”

“I write some crappy songs. ... but every once in a while I get just the right words put together for the right moment, and it feels like magic. There is no explaining the magic. It floats in and then just like that, it floats out. There's no amount of money that will buy magic. I've watched myself try to coax it, but it is only when I relax and totally allow magic to envelop me that it has ever been kind.”

“All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.”

Source : Eugene Ionesco (2015). “Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.