“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Seeing that I must shortly approach mankind with the heaviest demand that has ever been made on it, it seems to me indispensable to say who I am.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Abandon all hope ye who enter here is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices…”— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com
“Tyler get me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“I was 50 years old and hadn’t been to bed with a woman for four years.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I’d been treated by at least six of them.”— Erica Jong, amazon.com
“One day Karen DeCilia put a few observations together and realized her husband Frank was sleeping with a real estate woman in Boca.”— Elmore Leonard, amazon.com
“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to k…”— J.D Salinger, amazon.com
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com