The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else’s nostalgia - Pete Hamill

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. - Samuel Butler

A man who wears a fragrant flower on his collar spreads a perfume wherever he goes. (141) - Prem Prakash

It is still cheating, even if nobody comes. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones. - Comte de Lautréamont

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. “Never mock a tender heart,” he said. - Orson Scott Card

The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction. - Róbert Gál

Laughter is the antidote to existential pain - S. Spencer Baker