"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis

I loved that book. We had a whole existentialism unit when I was in the 10th grade.

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it on a cold night

- Marilyn Monroe

"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and valuable existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality."

-- Henry David Thoreau

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' ('I found it!') but 'That's funny...'.."

- Isaac Asimov

"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country."
Will Durant

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
—Jim Horning

"You should never marry someone who doesn't make you laugh."

Garrison Keillor

"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way."

Buddha

"If I can't turn him on, he ain't got switches!"
—blonde bombshell Sally DeBains in Reefer Madness: The Musical