‘Never lose an opportunity to have sex or be on television…’ Gore Vidal

“If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.” Goethe

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”

Saul Bellow

When Alice (in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland) cries from loneliness, the White Queen tells her: ‘Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you’ve come today. Consider what o’clock it is. Consider anything, only don’t cry!’ Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. ‘Can you keep from crying by considering things?’ she asked. ‘That’s the way it’s done,’ the Queen said with great decision…