"If you're rushing around like a chicken with its head cut off you're probably going to get hurt."

“To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I Agree'.”

“Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1988). “Life on Earth: Stories”, Simon & Schuster

“We've never had a giant circulation. And we've always been a magazine for writers and for sophisticated readers. We've never had to run stories that would appeal to a million people. And what you end up with is a kind of tradition that might have staying power - the cockroach after armageddon.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.”

“We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.”

“If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Gregory House". TV Series "House" ("One Day, One Room", 2007), 2004-2012.

“I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 17, 2014.

“The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.”