“ It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. Jon Krakauer
“ Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous. David Foster Wallace
“ Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepare… Christopher Hitchens
“ All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere! (Linus) Charles M. Schulz
“ How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest. Louisa May Alcott
“ Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties? Patton Oswalt
“ How are babies made? Visibly startled, Jordan turned and opened his mouth, as if he intended to speak, but for some reason no words came out. At first Alexandra was puzzled by his involuntary silence,… Judith McNaught
“ I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in w… Audre Lorde
“ I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over. Daphne du Maurier
“ I want to set the record straight.The record's never straight, you idiot! Haven't you ever read ? They rewrite the record anytime it doesn't suit them. You're spinning your wheels and exposing your ba… David Eddings
“ The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constru… Chuck Klosterman
“ The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true. Haruki Murakami
“ The articles were extremely eye-opening. Not just in Teen Vogue but in Seventeen and CosmoGirl as well. They were all about being yourself, staying natural, loving your body as is, and going green! Th… Lisi Harrison
“ [H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time. Hal Clement
