Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business - Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. - Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. - Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit. - Isaac Asimov

In a well-ordered universe... - Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. - Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach and Other Poems

90% of the game is half mental. - Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. - Mark Twain

I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he was just waiting for me to be lonely, or to let my guard down, so that he could surface and fill my mind again with thoughts of him. - Colleen Houck

Everybody's damaged by something. - Emma Donoghue, Room