"Reality is a collective hunch."

- Jane Wagner (via Lily Tomlin, in the play The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe.)

"My answer is: Follow your bliss. There's something inside you that knows you're on the tether, knows you're on the beam, that knows you're off the beam, and if you get off the beam to earn money - you've lost your life."

- Joseph Cambell

"To be cynical is not the same as avoiding illusion, for cynicism is just another kind of illusion. All formulas for meeting life - even many philosophies - are illusion. Cynicism is a trashy illusion."

- Robertson Davies, from The Manticore

"Listen: We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different."

- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"Alienation has become a commodity that you sell on an academic market." [Note: This comment was made in response to universities and colleges "teaching" racism, reverse and standard sexism and such. This is the best coinage I've ever heard to describe this problem.]

- Stanley Crouch (on "Politically Incorrect")

"Now that ceaseless exposure has callused us to the lewd and the vulgar, it is instructive to see what still seems wicked to us. What still slaps the clammy flab of our submissive consciousness hard enough to get our attention?"

- Thomas Harris, from Hannibal

"We're all entitled to our own opinions, but not our own facts."

- Richard L. Brandt

"On the plains ... we also treasure our world-champion slow talkers, people who speak as if God has given them only so many words to use in a lifetime, and having said them they will die."

- Kathleen Norris, from Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

"Life is a screaming orgasm in the wasteland of the endless night."

- Ralph's bathroom wall, Moorhead, MN, 1982

"Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like Bananas."

- Groucho Marx

"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry."

- W. B. Yeats

"Are you kidding? You can't have a civilization without that, can you? If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were."

- Ray Bradbury

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."

- Helen Keller

"God doesn't require us to succeed, He only asks that you try."

- Mother Teresa

"God is an answer to a question that I didn't even realize my heart was asking."

- Lisa (aka Weebie)

"Every moment of every day consists of walking into the middle of someone else's plot."