"Nothing is ever certain."
- Alice Sebold
"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."
- J.D. Salinger
"I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can'..."
- Harry Crews
"In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it"
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
"Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion."
- Criss Jami
"Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes"
- Sidney Howard
"Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear."
- Julian Barnes
"(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. F..."
- Bruce Sterling
"If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous."
"Creativity abides no absolutes."
- Shannon Taylor Hodnett