"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."  

-- Havelock Ellis

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death."

 

-- Joan D. Vinge

“What is the New Testament? A handbook for those who are to be sacrificed.”

--Soren Kierkegaard

"Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I want to use whatever gifts I have for practical purposes, not waste them on things which have no life, or which have to be kept alive by artificial means."

-- Kurt Weill

"You’re a killer of art, you’re a killer of beauty, you’re even a killer of laughter."

-- Willem de Kooning to Andy Warhol, The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults