Hui Chao

“A few weeks ago, he had invited a young physician friend, Sigmund Freud, to accompany him for an entire day. A mistake perhaps! The young man had been attempting to decide on his choice of medical specialty, and that day may have frightened him away from the practice of general internal medicine. For, according to Freud’s calculations, Breuer had spent six hours in his fiacre!”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“In fact, one of the biggest predictors of marital bliss appears to be the agreement to have kids in the first place.”
― John Medina, Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five

“Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters