"Such is true joy’s absolute certainty,Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death forever."
- Scott Hastie
"It’s great to feel happy. Go, do what makes you feel happy. Do it shabbily and get shallow happiness; Do it hard and feel the hardest happiness!"
- Israelmore Ayivor
"Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean."
- Raymond Chandler