A handful of quotes, updated whenever I hear something I like.

Every man has his own patch of earth to cultivate. What’s important is that he dig deep.
~José Saramago


Those whom the gods would destroy, they first render mad.
~Euripides


That, to me, is what heaven will be like. We will witness the unique gifts of each person flower before our eyes and be amazed.
~RP, in response to Paul Pott's audition


Only by exposing ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.
~Pema Chodron


I have known many graduates of Bryn Mawr. They are all of the same mold. They have all accepted the same bright challenge: something is lost that has not been found, something's at stake that has not been won, something is started that has not been finished, something is dimly felt that has not been fully realized. They carry the distinguishing mark – the mark that separates them from other educated and superior women: the incredible vigor, the subtlety of mind, the warmth of spirit, the aspiration, the fidelity to past and to present. As they grow in years, they grow in light. As their minds and hearts expand, their deeds become more formidable, their connections more significant, their husbands more startled and delighted. I once held a live hummingbird in my hand. I once married a Bryn Mawr girl. To a large extent they are twin experiences. Sometimes I feel as though I were a diver who had ventured a little beyond the limits of safe travel under the sea and had entered the strange zone where one is said to enjoy the rapture of the deep.
~EB White


If you're going through hell, keep going.
~Winston Churchill


What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
~Jack Kerouac, On the Road


I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you...
~Walt Whitman, To a Stranger


I have seen the darkness creep along the wall
I have heard my Madness chatter before day
I have seen the world roll up into a ball
Then suddenly dissolve and fall away.
~T.S. Eliot, Prufrock's Pervigilium


Coherence, like sanity, is only functional if it's compatible with another's.
~me at some point


Black holes are where God divided by zero.
~Steven Wright


Women lead interesting, if not deliberate, lives, and we acquire good stories, if only to tell ourselves.
~Sarah Tan


There's a blaze of light in every word, it doesn't matter which you heard -- the holy or the broken hallelujah.
~Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah


The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary.
~James Nicoll


People who only live for the consumption of pleasure are the walking dead.
~Unknown