words

"I don't care much about pretty words any more. You live with words a long time. Then all at once you are old, and there are the things and the words don't matter any more." -Judge Irwin in Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men

Stoppard

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
-Tom Stoppard

Steinbeck

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.
-Slim in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

Hardy

"...the more I see of life the more do I perceive that there is nothing particularly great in its greatest walks, and therefore nothing particularly small in mine..."
-Clym Yeobright in Thomas Hardy's Return of The Native

Steinbeck

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella.
-Slim, in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

Plath

"They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disemboweled themselves when anything went wrong."
-Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar

Hemingway

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
- Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)

Callahan

It's which came first, the phoenix or the ashes?
-Bill Callahan, (Smog), in the 07/02/07 Pitchfork interview

Pauling

"Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error." -Linus Pauling (1962)

Juvenal

Probitas laudatur et alget.

O'Connor

"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted" -Flanner O'Connor (From "Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose," 1961)

Barrett Browning

"The beautiful seems right / By force of Beauty, and the feeble wrong / Because of weakness."
-Elizabeth Barret Browning