"Life"

"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies: 'Goddammit, you've got to be kind.'"

- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., _God Bless You Mr. Rosewater_

                           "You drift from day to day - years go by. 

                                                Then a change comes. 

      What a strange thing to have happen halfway through your life.

                                                         What luck."

                                          - Johnny, _Light Sleeper_

"But in the case of human beings, friendship is a transitory art,

subject to discontinuance without further notice."

- O . H e n r y , "Telemachus, Friend"

"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything.
A choice is all that is left him."

- H . M a t h e w s

 

 

"It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish."
- H e r a c l i t u s

 

 

 

"...The important thing is: if you fail once,

or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there.

A dream is only over if you give it up - or if it comes true."

- N e i l P e a r t

 

 

"WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A *DECISION* - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.... IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT - IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO *LIVE* IT."

- Owen Meany, John Irving's _A Prayer For Owen Meany_

 

 

 

"Just trust yourself, then you

will know how to live."
- G o e t h e

 

 

"The most terrifying thing in the world is your own life, the fact that it's yours and nobody else's." - John Updike, _Rabbit is Rich_

 

 

 

"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame."

- E r i c a J o n g

 

 

 

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence;

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

-R o b e r t F r o s t

 

 

 

"Sad to say, I must be on me way
So buy me beer or whiskey 'cause I'm going far away
I'd like to think I'll be returning when I can...."

- T h e P o g u e s