Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
-Nicholas Sparks
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
-Eric Hoffer