“A poet does not write to set down things he clearly knows, but to open the lips of his own oracle.”— John Vyvyan, amazon.com
“I’ve come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, understand. What’s mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn’t fit into a story, what doesn’t have a story.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com
“Everyday is the best day if you let it be. You can have mastery over a lot of things but if you don’t have your mind right, none of these things matter.”— Billy Corgan, twitter.com
“I will not allow someone to tell me I can’t be a writer because I don’t have enough followers on Instagram.”— Shani Silver, artplusmarketing.com
“I think big data is so powerful that nation states will fight over how much data matters.”— Eric Schmidt, businessinsider.com
“I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all the darkness.”— Ryan Adams, amazon.com
“Once in a life, if a person chooses to go through these things, then maybe the act of writing them down could be a gift, so that others might know that should they suffer their romances or their love of things, they're not alone.”— Ryan Adams, amazon.com
“There are images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com
“This transgender issue that just happened, I just think, Are you kidding me? Look, you’re a human, I’m a human. We’re breathing the same air. We have the same problems. We’re trying to get through our day. Who the fuck are you to throw a log in the road of somebody who has a different set of difficu…”— David Letterman, vulture.com
“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”— John Green, amazon.com
“This is all meaningless... sometimes it’s like, 'oh my God, the news', and then I pick up my book and suddenly I’m reading about ten thousand years ago again, and, wow, that gives you a perspective.”— Camille Paglia, nymag.com
“The main problem I have with trigger warnings, however, is that I don’t think they’re helpful. I think they’re a cute way of saying, ‘Look here. See? I care about your mental illness. I am enlightened. I’m talking about rape but warning you that I’m doing so.’ It’s saying, ‘I’m putting you in a box…”— Wendy Blacke, medium.com
“Understand, by saying God, I am merely using God as reference to long-term pattern we can’t decipher. Huge, slow-moving weather system rolling in on us from afar, blowing us randomly.”— Donna Tartt, Boris Pavlikovsky, amazon.com
“My first love was some insignificant boy when it should have been myself.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“I couldn’t have put into words what I felt, though it was something deep and primary.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com