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“To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. Thus proof is a word not often used among the Handdarata, who have chosen not to treat God as a fact, subject either to proof or to belief: and they have broken the circle, and go free.
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“A western kinsman of the sun, Dean. Although my aunt warned me that he would get me in trouble, I could hear a new call and see a new horizon, and believe it at my young age; and a little bit of trouble or even Dean’s eventual rejection of me as a buddy, putting me down, as he would later, on starving sidewalks and sickbeds - what did it matter? I was a young writer and I wanted to take off.
Somewhere along the line I knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“WELL, I’M SUFFERING INSIDE! Anytime I see someone caring or sharing, I burn up inside with envy. You know why I feel comfortable only around the collapsed, the broken, the inebriated, the helpless and poor——‘CAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE WHAT I FEEL INSIDE!”
― Karen Finley

“The king was pregnant.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness