Brian Bohlender > Brian's Quotes

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Keep cool but care”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.