(On his grandmother) "She doesn't have all her marbles any more--she's as old as hell--and she keeps sending me money for my birthday about four times a year."
J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
"Sil te plait . . . apprivoise-moi, dit-il!"
The Fox, from Antoine de St-Exupery's The Little Prince
"Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer."
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
"The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god."
Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"If powers fail, there shall be praise for daring, and in great undertaking, to have willed is enough."
The "Poet" from Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man
"Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul."
Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
"Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly. I was conscious only of my fancies as a butterfly, and unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly I awoke, and was myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming that I am a man."
Chuang Tzu
"The truth is, you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd."
Jules, from Pulp Fiction
"Oops. Did I just type that out loud?"
Brad, on an offensively funny email
"But the L-word was involved. When that happens, things get a little sticky."
Mike
Shannon: (walking into room) "What's that smell?"
Eve: (reading Salinger, not looking up) "Triste."
"Today is gone. Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.
Every day, from here to there,
funny things are everywhere."
Dr. Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish