"In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others."

“Research tells us that fourteen out of any ten individuals like chocolate.”

Source : Sandra Boynton (1982). “Chocolate: The Consuming Passion”, Workman Publishing Company

“The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.”

“I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.”

“The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.”

Source : Joseph Mitchell (2010). “My Ears Are Bent”, p.11, Vintage

“Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.”

Source : Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.20, Vintage

“You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.”

Source : Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Wasteland”, p.12, Harper Collins

“A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them...”

“You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.”

Source : Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.321, Macmillan