"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."


- The Great Gatsby

"The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.  There is no laughter in heaven."

- Mark Twain

"An artist has to got to be careful never to really arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere.  You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming, and, as long as you can stay in that realm, you'll sorta be alright."

- Bob Dylan

"Much of the difference between ordinary and extraordinary lives is simply a matter of effort"

"The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag."


- Seneca

"I got a bird that whistles, I got a bird that sings"


- Bob Dylan

"It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought  I shall have no more if I possess worlds.  By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world."


- Blaise Pascal, Pensées