"You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses an..."
- Azar Nafisi
"Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed."
- Jean M. Auel
"Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does."
- Phil Lester
"Please, touch me, I pray."
- Jess C. Scott
"It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness."
- Miguel Syjuco
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a m..."
- Jim Morrison
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost
"We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left."
- Sarah Vowell
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are"
- Kurt Cobain
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
- Michel de Montaigne