"The more I know, the more I know I don't know."
― Anonymous

"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness."
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"Not all those who wander are lost."
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom."
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
― Wallace Stevens

"Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff."
― Harvey Pekar

"Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next."
― L. Frank Baum

"The mind I love must have wild places."
― Katherine Mansfield

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

"The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain."
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

"Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."
― Jean-Paul Sartre

"A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand."
― Beryl Markham

"The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in."
― Henry Green

"I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be."
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Norman Mailer
"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision."
― Norman Mailer

Stephen Greenblatt
"I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing."
― Stephen Greenblatt

Madeleine de Scudéry
"Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing."
― Madeleine de Scudéry

Rebecca Walker
". . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore."
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

Margaret Atwood
"War is what happens when language fails."
― Margaret Atwood

Louisa May Alcott
"I like good strong words that mean something…"
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Jonathan Swift
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
― Jonathan Swift

Rainer Maria Rilke
"To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
― Rainer Maria Rilke

Beth Lisick
"The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical."
― Beth Lisick

"We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive."
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

Noël Coward
"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
― George Eliot

"Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know."
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Carlos Castaneda
"You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life."
― Carlos Castaneda

"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
― Isaac Asimov 
