The obstacle is the path. ~ Zen Buddhist Saying

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We listened to them, but it was clear they’d received too much therapy to know the truth.  ~Jeffrey Eugenides

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Writing is easy.  All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.  ~Gene Fowler

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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.  ~Michel de Montaigne

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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.  ~Robert A. Heinlein

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When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. ~Robert Anton Wilson

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When I tell you the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.  ~William Blake

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Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.  ~P.J. O’Rourke

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What makes us men is that we can think logically. What makes us human is that we sometimes choose not to.  ~Roger Ebert

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.  ~Oscar Wilde

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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good dipped in chocolate.  ~Unkown

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Kiss me; It will heal, but it won’t forget. ~Marilyn Manson (Heart Shaped Glasses)

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I am shinier than you. Therefore I must hit you with stuff. ~Goddess Alexandra

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Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell. ~Erica Jong

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The pot at the end of the rainbow is not Acapulco Gold.  ~Anonymous

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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. ~Robertson Davies

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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~Ernest Gaines

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Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. ~Wu Li

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Be nice to a man and he’s as good as gone. Cater to him, run after him, spill a few tears over him at the breakfast table, call him “Dearie” and you’ll have him falling into the arms of the first vamp who throws him a red rose and a cruel word now and then, when she thinks of it. ~Nita Naldi

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Definition of insanity: Continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results.

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Tell me about yourself–your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. ~Peter Arno

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I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the Gods.  ~Emo Phillips

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All great truths begin as blasphemies. ~-George Bernard Shaw

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I have the right to love many people at once and to change my prince often. ~Anais Nin

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spritual beings having a human experience. ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The thing that scares me the most about wrestling fans is that they can vote and they can breed. ~Bobby “The Brain” Heenan

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Lead me not into temptation: I can find the way myself. ~Rita Mae Brown

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He who speaks the truth gets chased out of twelve villages.

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Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage. ~Anais Nin

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Life is a joke. It just matters how well you tell it. ~Andrew Maxfield

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It ain’t what you’re called; it’s what you answer to. ~Tyler Perry (As Madea)

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. ~D. H. Lawrence

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Whether you think you can or you think you can’t — you’re right!  ~Henry Ford