“I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.”

“It seems to me, that the most unlikely events almost have to happen, or life would just be dull and no one would write anything down.”

Lawrence M. Schoen (1959) American writer and klingonist

“Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

“It’s tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

“We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.”

Carl R. Rogers (1902–1987) American psychologist

“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

“The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.”

Dashiell Hammett book The Thin Man

“… don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience…”

Louise Erdrich (1954) writer from the United States