Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-Philip K. Dick
The essence of the offering is that it be analogous to the sin, and that a man offer to God his desires and passions, for this is more acceptable than all.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
-Frank Zappa
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
-Oscar Wilde