Emory Wolfe

“If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.”
― Anne Tyler

“If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.”
― Yogi Bhajan

“I think,” said Dominique firmly, “that he is the most revolting person I’ve ever met.” “Oh, now, really?” “Do you care for that sort of unbridled arrogance? I don’t know what one could say for him, unless it’s that he’s terribly good-looking, if that matters.” “Good-looking? Are you being funny, Dominique?” Kiki Holcombe saw Dominique being stupidly puzzled for once. And Dominique realized that what she saw in his face, what made it the face of a god to her, was not seen by others; that it could leave them indifferent; that what she had thought to be the most obvious, inconsequential remark was, instead, a confession of something within her, some quality not shared by others.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“The strongest and most evil spirits have so far done the most to advance humanity: again and again they relumed the passions that were going to sleep—all ordered society puts the passions to sleep—and they reawakened again and again the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of the pleasure in what is new, daring, untried; they compelled men to pit opinion against opinion, model against model.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes & an Appendix of Songs