"She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof."

David Foster Wallace

"Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them."

Edgar Allan Poe

"Life isn’t long enough for love and art."

W. Somerset Maugham

"There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy."

"Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."

Steve Jobs

"How we feel about ‘the nature of existence’ is largely determined by what we have to do in the next few hours."

Alain de Botton

"It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

Jean De La Fontaine

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."

John Lennon

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"With all their damned talk of modern painting, I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black."

Pierre-Auguste Renoir