"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."

--John Kenneth Galbraith

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist as one grows up."

--Pablo Picasso

"But it's the harsh reality, as of 2009. No jet-packs, no hover cars, no diets that work."

--Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby, Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere

"Any unwanted behavior should be dealt with in kind and loving manner. For this reason, I use a method called 'corporal cuddling.'"

--Paul, "An Engineer's Guide to Cats"

"So the question is, which boulder are you going to choose to roll? The "must lose weight" boulder or the "fuck you, I will boldly, defiantly accept the body I've got and live in it" boulder?

--Kate Harding, "How Do You Fuck a Fat Woman?"

"It has never surprised me that God gave the world a little tilt at the same time He set it spinning; so much that goes on here mimics that tilt."

--Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

"Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet."

--C. J. Cherryh, Cyteen: The Betrayal