“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variable…”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”— Chuck Palahniuk, barnesandnoble.com
“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character... Would you slow down? Or speed up?”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“You don't beat the grim reaper by living longer; you beat the grim reaper by living better.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“I’ve never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn’t matter. Life is to be lived.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Life is life, and it is infinitely better than the alternative, or so we presume, for nobody returns to dispute it.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“I can be whatever. I can wear shoes or don't wear shoes. I can tie my hair up or wear it down. It doesn't matter.”— Joss Stone, quotlr.com
“Things will get easier, people’s minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”— Ellen Degeneres, books.google.com