Stephen Colbert

"I deliver my Truth hot and hard."

Stephen Colbert 

Ralph Ellison

 "I am invisible, understand, simply 

because people refuse to see me."

Ralph Ellison

Frederick Douglass

 "At a time like this, scorching irony, 

not convincing argument, is needed."

Frederick Douglass

Ossie Davis

 “Any form of art is a form of power; 

it has impact, it can affect change 

it can not only move us, it makes us move.”

Ossie Davis

Jules Verne

 "I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. 

A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud 

without coming through."

Jules Verne

Kurt Vonnegut

 "Be careful what you pretend to be 

because you are what you pretend to be."

Kurt Vonnegut

Dorothea Tanning

"Keep your eye on your inner world 

and keep away from ads 

and idiots and movie stars, 

except when you need amusement."

Dorothea Tanning

Virginia Woolf

 "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

Virginia Woolf

Maurice Sendak

 "My work has always been considered inappropriate.

But the ones that I love the ones that I think work 

as works of art and books are inappropriate."
Maurice Sendak

J. R. R. Tolkien

 "It does not do to leave a live dragon 

out of your calculations, if you live near him."
J. R. R. Tolkien

Arthur C. Clarke

 "The only way of finding the limits

of the possible is by going beyond

them into the impossible."
Arthur C. Clarke

Shirley Jackson

 "I delight in what I fear. "
Shirley Jackson

Kenneth Patchen

 “There are so many little dyings 

that it doesn't matter which of them is death.”
Kenneth Patchen

Edgar Allen Poe

 "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
Edgar Allen Poe

Stephen King

"I have the heart of a child - I keep it in a jar."
Stephen King

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

 "Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. 

There's plenty of movement, but you never know 

if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Stanley Kubrick

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, 

and the small nations like prostitutes."
Stanley Kubrick

Terry Pratchett

"Multiple exclamation marks are a 
sure sign of a diseased mind."
Terry Pratchett

William Gibson

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounding yourself with assholes.”
William Gibson

Rev. Robert F. Capon

 

"The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls."
Rev. Robert F. Capon