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“If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods