“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

“… It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.”

“Pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, so you can pay attention to what really has your attention.”

“I remember everything about you," says Peeta, tucking a loose strand of hair behind my ear. "You're the one who wasn't paying attention.”

“Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention… the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”

“The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world — and to pay attention to man.”

“There is ecstasy in paying attention.”

“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.”

“Haunted trees
covered behind the curtains of their own leaves
stare at the dark
from the fringe of streets.”

“If of these United States I was the President,
No man that owed another should ever pay a cent;
And he who dunn'd another should be banished far away,
And attention to the pretty girls is all a man should pay.”