"I didnâ€™t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed."

-- Simon Van Booy

“Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.”
“It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.”
“Weâ€™re never gonna understand women. Theyâ€™re way too complex. Youâ€™ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings . . . thereâ€™s no way to tell whatâ€™s causing their attitude. - Mike”
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. ... I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD.”

Source : William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...”, p.63
“There's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 1 and 2, and Ratatouille. It's super surreal. We've been working on this for eight years nonstop. Every week we've had a Sausage Party meeting, and now it won't be on our to-do list anymore. It's like the end of summer camp.”

Source : Source: munchies.vice.com
“Life goes by fast. Enjoy it...Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.”
“Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them.”
“To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.”

Source : Nassau William Senior (1852). “Political Economy: Reprinted from the Original Edition”, p.60

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