"A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."

Hemingway, Ernest | Writers and Writing | 2 bookmarks

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."

Richter, Jean Paul | Birthdays | 6 bookmarks

"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack | Passion | 18 bookmarks

"I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people."

Erasmus, Desiderius | Insanity | 2 bookmarks

"I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane."

Jennings, Waylon | Insanity | 6 bookmarks

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Levant, Oscar | Insanity | 6 bookmarks

"There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity."

White, William Allen | Insanity | 2 bookmarks

"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."

Richter, Jean Paul | Death and Dying | 6 bookmarks

"The first requisite for immortality is death."

Lec, Stanislaw J. | Immortality | 1 bookmarks

"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."

Caen, Herb | Immortality | 1 bookmarks