“You want to know how two chemicals interact, do you ask them? No, they're going to lie through their lying little teeth. Throw them in a beaker and apply heat.”— Matt Witten, Peter Blake, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“If you're dying, suddenly everybody loves you.”— Lawrence Kaplow, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.”— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Finally, in a low whisper, he said, ‘I think I might be a terrible person.’ For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway. What did it really matter if I spent it like this—caring for this boy—as opposed to some other way? I would always be earthbound; he hadn’t robbed me of my ability to fly or to live foreve…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to sa…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“"A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water."”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“"All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that."”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on t…”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
““Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.””— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“the area dividing the brain and the soul is affected in many ways by experience – some lose all mind and become soul: insane. some lose all soul and become mind: intellectual. some lose both and become: accepted.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com