“ How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. Frank Herbert
“ So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air. Edith Wharton
“ Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito. Paul Kalanithi
“ The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance. Ellen Cushing
“ Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. T.H. White
“ It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win… David Levithan
“ Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while simultaneously listening to the compositions of others in an effort to contribute to the whole.… Stephen Batchelor
“ You have a consistent character yourself and you wish all the facts of life to be consistent, but they never are. For instance you despise public service because you want work always to correspond to… Leo Tolstoy
“ The easiest way to disturb or create an element of horror is to take a positive emotion and put it in a negative situation, to create dissonance. R.R. Hood
“ This is the greatest mystery of the human mind--the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irrelevancies relate, dissonance becomes harmony, and nonsense wears a crown of meaning. But the clarif… John Steinbeck
