"Oh, no," the launch announcer muttered as the Titan exploded. "It appears that we've had a malfunction of the vehicle."
- Some NASA Guy
The moon is nothing
But a circumambulatory aphrodisiac
Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
Into a rising birth-rate
- Christopher Fry
I regard Christianity as the most fatal and seductive lie that has ever yet existed
- as the greatest and most impious lie ...
I decline to enter into any compromise or false position in reference to it -
I urge people to declare open war with it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery."
- H.G. Wells
There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the
species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony,
is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are
the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it
be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
- Cormac McCarthy
Confront the dark parts of yourself. . . .
Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
- August Wilson
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece
- Vladimir Nabokov
Play fast and loose
- william Shakespeare
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth-look at the
dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether
something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment
- Soren Kierkegaard