"We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do."

“There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.”

Source : Joshilyn Jackson (2010). “Backseat Saints”, p.227, Hachette UK

“After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.413

“Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?”

“For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live”

“In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.”

Source : "The First Time David Morrissey Killed a Zombie". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 11, 2012.

“The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word ... courteous manners, a generous regard for the rights of others, and, above all, integrity which admits of no qualification or variation.”

“Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.”

“I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.”