"There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore, he has power."

- Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

"Unk liked to twist things around to where it seemed that anybody who was happy was dumb or crazy."

- from Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan

"Where do all the secrets live?
They travel in the air,
You can smell them when they burn.
They travel,
Those who say the past is not dead,
Stop and smell the smoke."

- from Ben Folds Five's "Smoke"

"I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house."

- U2's Bono in People

"They thin my heart with little things,
And my life with change.
Oh, in so many ways,
I find more missing every day."

- from Wilco's "Theologians"

"And it seemed as though in a little while the solution would be found, and then a new and splendid life would begin; and it was clear to them that they still had a long, long road before them, and that the most complicated and difficult part of it was only just beginning."

- from Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon, I put it back again."

- Oscar Wilde

"It's time to put the election behind us; the votes have been counted and no more complaining about the past. Carrie is the new American Idol."

- Sen. John Kerry

"Man: Trouble is, you're an approximist and I'm a perfectionist.
Woman: Whatever.
Man: Exactly."

- from "Life in These United States" (Reader's Digest, 6/2005)

"There are two colours in my head,
What, what is that you tried to say?"

- from Radiohead's "Everything in its Right Place"