"I just don't get men. Mind you, I don't get me either."

“The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.”

“All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.”

Source : Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Replacement”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

“To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.”

Source : 1951 I Am a Composer.

“Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.”

“I am not sure I knew what I was doing, writing an "apocalypse" novel, when I started this book. Now that the book is done, I can own that I have in fact written an apocalypse novel, one that speculates on a dark, dark future. Why I did it, I really don't know - every time people read my work they comment on its darkness, its sadness.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.”

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”

“The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.”