"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them."

- Mark Haddon, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time"

"Angels fall without you there."

- from Goo Goo Dolls, "Black Balloon"

"Social life is mere friction, I said to Carla when she congratulated me. She said this incident is making me cynical. Of course, if you didn't start thinking it was all playacting, you might shoot yourself."

- Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

"If you want to enjoy yourself properly, you must go to Paris. And, mind you, they've a great feeling for the Irish there. When they heard I was from Ireland, they were ready to eat me, man."

- James Joyce, "A Little Cloud"

"Who is John Galt?"

- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"The *blank* from hell"

- Richard Lewis

"After all, what's life anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die...By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that."

- from E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web"

"It’s okay, you don’t have to pay.
I’ve got all the change."

- from Ben Folds' "Still Fighting It"

"'The machine is no longer a machine,' said Salo. 'The machine's contacts are corroded, his bearings fouled, his circuits shorted, and his gears stripped. His mind buzzes and pops like the mind of an Earthling -- fizzes and overheats with thoughts of love, honor, dignity, rights, accomplishment, integrity, independence--'"

- from Kurt Vonnegut's ( Read more... )

"I was just guessin’ at numbers and figures, pullin’ the puzzles apart.
Questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as my heart."

- from Coldplay's "The Scientist"