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)