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- "Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason." Andre Gide
- "Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" T.S. Eliot
- "Buy the ticket, take the ride." Hunter S. Thompson
- "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges
- "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is." Albert Camus
- "Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals." John Steinbeck
- "Poetry is indispensable -- if I only knew what for." Jean Cocteau
- "There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes." August Strindberg
- "It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels." Aldous Huxley
- "The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time." W. B. Yeats
- "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us from." Marcel Proust
- "A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." Ezra Pound
- "An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artists need is loneliness." Henry Miller
- "Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance." Oscar Wilde
- "We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art." Henry James
- "I am an artist... I am here to live out loud." Émile Zola
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