Life becomes a festival when gaiety and culture blend.
-Anonymous
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; his presence should be felt everywhere, but he should never be seen.
-Gustave Flaubert
There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.
-Kurt Cobain
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw