- Cage entered the chamber expecting to hear silence, but as he wrote later, he "heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation."
- "But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world." - The Little Prince
- "You belong to me, and all Paris belongs to me, and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
- "i like my body when it's with your body." -ee cummings
- "talking about music is like dancing about architecture." - elvis costello
- "I have never killed, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure." -Clarence Darrow
- "You don't talk much do you? he said. Not a whole lot. That's a good trait to have." All the Pretty Horses pg. 19
- "Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were underway at some flawed place in the iron dark of the world." All The Pretty Horses pg. 67
- "He'd half meant to speak, but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat." All the Pretty Horses pg. 109
- "And he put his hands on the ground at either side of him and pressed them against the earth and in that oddly burning canopy of black he slowly turned dead center to the world, all of it taut and trembling and moving enormous and alive under his hands." All the Pretty Horses pg. 119
- "Black boots, said Rawlins. Ain't that the shits? I always wanted to be a badman." All the Pretty Horses pg. 121
- "Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of everyday, into more pieces than my heart was made of. I never thought of myself as quiet, muchless silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs or the burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did it ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought my way out of happiness one million times, but never once into it." EL&IC pg. 17
- "Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living." EL&IC pg. 113
- "He told me it's 9:38, he looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters to I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter? " EL&IC pg. 119
- "Oh god. My car's on fire, but in a very specific place!" -Jeremy Clarkson
- "Why don't all cars have no doors? When I come to power, I'm going to make this a rule, because this is just better." -Jeremy Clarkson
- "I don't know if you know this, but Africa is really quite large." -James May
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