Here is a collection of some of my favourite quotes. They all came from the many books I own.
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  " We would make our heroes shallow, we would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength."
                             -David Talbot in Anne Rice's " The Tale of the Body Theif"

  " 'All I have written here is true' Quinn read 'except the lies' "
                              - From Timothy Findley's "Famous Last Words"

  " And so on"
                               - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Slaugher-House Five" (and every other book by him)

" ' Go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut,' mummered Paul Lazzaro in his azure nest ' Go take a flying fuck at the moon'"
                             -Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Slaughter-House Five

" Wampeters--- An object around which the lives of otherwise unrelated people revolve, e.g., The Holy Grail."
                               - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Wampeters Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions)

 " Hi ho"
                                - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s " Slapstick"

  " ' From Cufre Florists' My sister said. 'The only person who would give him a job was his uncle'
'At least he's not a drug addict' my mother remarked nonchalantly"
                                - From Guillermo Martinez's  "Regarding Roderer

  "'My first major defeat!' said Gilbert 'No blue bicycle'"
                                - Timothy Findley's "The Last of the Crazy People"

   " This Manifesto is not issued in the name of an organiztaion of a movement. I speak only for myself. There is no romantic movement today. If there is to be one in the art of the future, this book will have helped it come into being."
                               - The Beginning to Ayn Rand's "The Romantic Manifesto"

    "It was not the guilt that froze me. I had taught myself never to feel guilt."
                                - Howard Campbell Jr. from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Mother Night"

     " YA VOY DORMIENDO, I go sleep now."
                                - El Indio from Jack Kerouac's "Tristessa"

    " Diminish'd never is the drizzle that broke no calm"
                                - Jack Kerouac's "Tristessa"

     " But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things."
                                - Jack Kerouac's "On The Road"

    " Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears..."
                                  - Dean Moriarty from Jack Kerouac's "On The Road"

      " If Lucifer confesses, we'll let the rest of you go."
                                   - Under Subordinate Conjunctions in Karen Gordon's "The Deluxe Transitive Vampire; The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed."

       " Timofey is more afraid of the dark now that he is dead"
                                     - Under Noun in the book listed above.

       "' Someone's been sleeping in my bed,' cried the baby vampire, snuffling at his dank cradle of earth."
                                    - Under Participal Phrase in the book listed above

      " It's such a typical thing for a freak to do, even if he didn't do it."
                                   -  From Kurt Vonegut, Jr.'s " Wampeters, Foma, Granfalloons."

      "Playboy. Somwhere, cash registers ring."
                                    - From Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s  " Wampeters, Foma, Granfalloons."

      " For that much money, the least they can do is discover God"
                                     - On the billions of dollars spent on the Space program.
                                       From Kurt VOnnegut Jr.'s "Wampeters, Foma, Granfalloons."

       " De Mortuis nil ni si bonum : Say nothing but good of the dead."
                                      - Take a guess.
 
 

                       As you can tell, I like reading Timothy Findley, Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and that Grammar book.
 

       From Don DeLillo's "White Noise" * Note: The boy's name is Heinrich, the "I" is the novel's protagonist Jack* This is part one of the conversation the two have within the chapter about the weather. It's too much to write in one sitting.

                          The boy is fourteen, often evasive an moody, at other times disturbingly compliant.
                          I have a sense that his ready yielding to our wishes and demands is a private
                          weapon of reproach. Babette is afraid he will end up in a barricade room, spraying
                          hundreds of rounds of automatic fire across an empty mall before the SWAT teams
                          come for him with their heavy-barreled weapons, their bull-horns and body armor.
                                          "It's going to rain tonight."
                                          "It's raining now,"  I said
                                          "The radio said tonight."
                                           ...
                                           "Look at the windshield," I said " Is that rain or isn't it?"
                                           "I'm only telling you what they said."
                                           "Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses."
                                           "Our sense? Our sense are wrong a lot more often than they're right..."
                                           "Is it raining," I said "or isn't it?"
                                           "I wouldn't want to have to say."
                                           "What if someone held a gun to your head?"
                                            "Who, you?"

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