“None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very opposite feeling—the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.” — Irvin D. Yalom, I’m Calling the Police
“I don’t mind the lies told about me, what worries me is the truth.” — Henny Youngman, Henny Youngman’s Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks
“What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.” — Mary Augusta Ward, Robert Elsmere
“The world is not subordinated to man’s use.” — Thomas Huxley, Science And Culture
“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.” — H.G. Wells, The Happy Turning
“Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989)
“No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“In another regrettable development, I am no longer thirteen, and apparently won’t be again.” — Tim Kreider, “The Decline and Fall of the Book Cover,” The New Yorker (2013-07-16)
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.” — Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
