Quotes

• "No hypnosis like a mass hypnosis 'cause a mass hypnosis isn't happening." - They Might Be Giants, Lake Monsters
• "As our vehicle leaves the ground and plunges over the edge of the cliff toward the valley floor, I ponder whether it is possible that one might allege I am guilty of an act of moral failure, having failed to maintain a proper course along the roadway." - Ithkuil on Wikipedia
• "...after peanut butter and chocolate, my favorite combination of two things is probably gross incompetence and high explosives." - Sam O'Nella
• "the hardest thing about building a room is you have to build a room to build the damn room in first. it drives me crazy" - Bill Wurtz
• "The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears." - John Vance Cheney

Books

• "It was true: his testicles were grotesquely huge." - Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• "...he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all matters." - Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• "'You're not Polokov, you're Kadalyi,' Rick said. / 'Don't you mean that the other way around? You're a bit confused.'" - Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• "Together with that receding wave, together with the countless living organisms it contained—microbes, seeds of marine plants, fish eggs—my myriad spermatozoa had been engulfed in the foaming sea and carried away." - Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask
• "When a boy of fourteen or fifteen discovers that he is more given to introspection and consciousness of self than other boys his age, he easily falls into the error of believing it is because he is more mature than they." - Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask
• "I, on the other hand, received no more sensual impression from 'woman' than from 'pencil,' or 'automobile,' or 'broom.'" - Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask
• "It would seem that family was no more to them than a euphemism for a bank account." - Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
• "'God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.'" - John Green, Looking for Alaska
• "Like Rabe'a, I didn't think people should believe in God because of heaven and hell." - John Green, Looking for Alaska
• "'Why are you wearing your fox hat?' I asked. / 'Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.'" - John Green, Looking for Alaska
• "And if we can, are we to love [the humanoids] like humans or dogs?" - Olga Ravn, The Employees
• "So I wouldn't have the power of speech? No, I understand. I hereby consent. When" - Olga Ravn, The Employees
• "He would have sacrificed the present so that they could share a longer future together." - Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two
• "'We have lost all our possessions but not our sense of humor.'" - John Hersey (quoting Father Kleinsorge), Hiroshima
• "The rain cleared and the cloudy afternoon was hot; before nightfall the three grotesques under the slanting piece of twisted iron began to smell quite bad." - John Hersey, Hiroshima
• "Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious." - Jack London, White Fang
• "So it goes." - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five