"What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth."

“There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care to do, leaving them but little time to please themselves.”

“Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.”

“I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.”

“Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.”

Source : "The Vindication of Edwin Land". Forbes Magazine, Volume 139 (p. 83), May 4, 1987.

“Love doesn't need to be doubted, tested or proven... it's meant to be shown, shared, and nurtured. Find your strength in love....”

“It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.839, Penguin

“When he held her that way, she felt so happy that it disturbed her. After he left, it would take her hours to fall asleep, and then when she woke up she would feel another onrush of agitated happiness, which was a lot like panic. She wished she could grab the happiness and mash it into a ball and hoard it and gloat over it, but she couldn't. It just ran around all over the place, disrupting everything.”

Source : Mary Gaitskill (2012). “Because They Wanted To: Stories”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

“A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 19, 2016