"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 22, spoken by the character Holden Caulfield
Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ~Jerome Lawrence
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ~Paul Valery
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. ~T.S. Eliot
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. ~Walter Lippman
Your ancient gladness! ~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author Unknown
The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~Ashley Montagu The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~Ashley Montagu
We don't manage our time as well as we manage our space. There's an overhead of starting and an overhead of stopping a project because you kind of lose your momentum. And you've got to bracket and put aside all the things you're already doing. So you need reasonably large blocks of uninterrupted time if you're going to be successful at doing some of these things. That's why hackers tend to stay up late. If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into a wall and having to stop. Whereas it might take three or four hours if you start over, you might finish if you just work that extra hour. If you're a morning person, the day always intrudes a fixed amount of time in the future. So it's much less efficient. Which is why I think computer people tend to be night people - because a machine doesn't get sleepy. ~Bill Joy
Oh the powers of nature. She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing. ~Benvenuto Cellini
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~Miles Franklin
We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. ~Author Unknown
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ~Alfred North Whitehead
My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs. ~Bill Vaughan My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley
every dilemma." -Hendrik Willem van Loon Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. ~Compton Mackenzie, Literature in My Time, 1933
If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola. ~From Strangers with Candy
I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it. ~Bob Thaves, "Frank & Ernest"
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. ~Peter Williams
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else. ~Havelock Ellis
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. ~E.M. Cioran
Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected. ~Source Unknown
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ~Joseph Roux
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