Somebody Said It Better

"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’"

"All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives."

"Why don’t you tell me that ‘if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited for you’? No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody."

"Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time."

"What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple; at least for a fellow like me. So simple that it is often overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life."

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."

"‘The past is the past,’ Harry goes on, ‘you got to live in the present. … It’s the only way to think. When you’re my age, you’ll see it. At my age if you carried all the misery you’ve seen on your back you’d never get up in the morning.’"

"You don’t stop caring, champ. You still care about that little girl whose underpants you saw in kindergarten. Once you care, you always care. That’s how stupid we are."

"About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddhist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I’m dead."

"Batman is the focus. I am just glad I got to be a part of history."

"College wasn’t like the real world. In the real world, people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity."