KUNDERA

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."
Hunter S. Thompson

But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Oscar Wild

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
Boris Vian

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal"

Camus

How to create a six words story :

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn"
Hemingway

THE HUMAN CONDITION
A Malraux