Because, like Marina Orlova, I am hot for words:

• "Love--the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket." - Bloodhound Gang, "The Bad Touch/Discovery Channel"
• "He was creating a hell for people who ask questions like that." - St. Augustine
• "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
• "I'd rather love somebody/And say his name to myself every day/Until I fall apart." - Angela Ball, "Jazz"
• "There's a low moon caught in your tangles/There's a ticking at the sill/There's a purr of a pigeon to break the still of day/As on we go drowning" - The Decemberists, "Of Angels and Angels"
• "If this is true, your memory is a mothership/minus the disco-sadistic silver/all stars need to shine. Tell the world." - Thomas Sayers Ellis, "T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M."
• "To-morrow for the young, the poets exploding like bombs,/The walks by the lake, the winter of perfect communion;/To-morrow the bicycle races/Through the suburbs on summer evenings: but to-day the struggle./Today the inevitable increase in the chances of death;/The conscious acceptance of guilt in the fact of murder;/To-day the expending of powers/On the flat ephemeral pamphlet and the boring meeting./To-day the makeshift consolations; the shared cigarette;/The cards in the candle-lit barn and the scraping concert,/The masculine jokes; to-day the/Fumbled and unsatisfactory embrace before hurting." - W. H. Auden
• "We can be quiet together, and pretend - since it is only the beginning - that we have all the time in the world." -- A. S. Byatt, 'Possession'
• "The only thing I'll ever ask of you/You've got to promise not to stop when I say when./...And I wonder/When I sing along with you/If anything could ever feel this real forever." - Foo Fighters, "Everlong"
• "If you're looking for something life-like/Hit a sardine nightclub/If every surface you touch is cold/Never go home/He says, 'I can't feel a thing, my dreams are so tight/Why wouldn't I stand in line tonight?'" - Metric, "Hustle Rose"
• "We can dream big and make the sparks burn brighter while they last, anyways…" - Kurt Halsey
• "It's like I have a shotgun in my mouth, with my finger on the trigger, and I can't get enough of the taste of gun metal." - Robert Downey, Jr.
• "I like the way you both look out at me./Somehow it's sometimes hard to be a human./Arms and legs get often in the way,/making oneself a bulky, awkward burden." - Robert Creeley, "En Famille"
• "Is wisdom just an empty word?/Is age a time one might finally well have missed? Must humanness be its own reward? Is happiness this?" - Robert Creeley, "En Famille"
• "He longs to be/An orange, to feel fingernails/Run a seam through him." - Yusef Komunyakaa, "Seven Deadly Sins"
• "I want a pretty little life." - The Bird and the Bee, "Ray Guns"
• "I want an empty head. I want to go to bed for a long, long, long time." - The Bird and the Bee, "What's in the Middle"
• "... The flies, my most ardent admirers ..." - Libba Bray, 'A Great and Terrible Beauty'
• "But somewhere in a private place, she packs her bags for outer space." - Savage Garden, "To the Moon and Back"
• "Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another." - George Bernard Shaw, "Major Barbara"
• "'Oh, sir,' cried the niece, 'you should have them burned like the rest. For I shall not be surprised if my uncle, when cured of his disease of chivalry, does not ... suddenly take it into his head to turn shepherd and roam through the woods and fields, singing and piping and what is worse, turning poet, for it is said that disease is incurable and catching.'" -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 'Don Quixote'
• "Malgré nous, Malgré nous/A quoi bon se sentir plus grand/Que nos" -- Tryo, "Serre-Moi"
• "Do you think I'm special? Do you think I'm nice? Am I bright enough to shine in your spaces?" -- One Republic, "All The Right Moves"
• "Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart." -- Lois McMaster Bujold
• "Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist." -- Margaret Cho
• "Let your desires be ruled by reason." -- Cicero
• "Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope." -- Thomas Edison
• "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." -- Thomas Edison
• "If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." -- Thomas Edison
• "Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds." -- Hugh Elliott
• "People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves." -- Salma Hayek
• "Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for." -- Erica Jong
• "Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange." -- Robin Morgan
• "We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have." -- Publilius Syrus
• “How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit suicide?” -- Judy Tentua
• "The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself." -- Mark Twain
• "No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone." -- Wendy Wasserstein
• “Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.”
• "We know that evil is far more likely to occur than good/And good endings are never as plausible as bad." -- Calderon, 'Life is a Dream'
• "I had to see if wisdom can help a human overcome the stars." -- Calderon, 'Life is a Dream'
• "Because in this world, Clotaldo,/Everyone who lives is dreaming." -- Calderon, 'Life is a Dream'
• "Before that day comes/You'll go back to sleep/And when you wake up/You'll believe everything/You've seen and felt/Like all the world's good things/Were just a dream." -- Calderon, 'Life is a Dream'
• "Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date." -- Shakespeare, Sonnet 14
• "But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,/All losses are restored and sorrows end." -- Shakespeare, Sonnet 30
• "You are my all-the-world, and I must strive/To know my shames and praises from your tongue;" -- Shakespeare, Sonnet 112
• "Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments. [...]" -- Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
• "Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,/But bears it out even to the edge of doom." -- Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
• "It is we, I think, are the idols and it is God/Has set us up as men who are painted wood" -- Louis MacNeice, "Train to Dublin"
• "I know that there are further syntheses to which,/As you have perhaps, people at last attain/And find that they are rich and breathing gold." -- Louis MacNeice, "Train to Dublin"
• Richard Wilbur, "The Beautiful Changes"
• "I'm not upset. I will never play with those girls. I only surround myself with people I find intellectually stimulating." -- Veda, "My Girl"
• "'But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.'" -- Bernard, Aldous Huxley, 'Brave New World'
• "'I thought we'd be more ... more together here--with nothing but the sea and moon. More together than in that crowd, or even in my rooms. Don't you understand that?'" -- Bernard, Aldous Huxley, 'Brave New World'
• "'I want to know what passion is,' she heard him saying. 'I want to feel something strongly.'" -- Aldous Huxley, 'Brave New World'
• "'And that's why we went to bed together yesterday--like infants--instead of being adults and waiting.'" -- Bernard, Aldous Huxley, 'Brave New World'
• "'It suddenly struck me the other day,' continued Bernard, 'that it might be possible to be an adult all the time.'" -- Aldous Huxley, 'Brave New World'
• "Often in the past he had wondered what it would be like to be subjected ... to some great trial, some pain, some persecution; he had even longed for affliction. As recently as a week ago, in the Director's office, he had imagined himself courageously resisting, stoically accepting suffering without a word. The Director's threats had actually elated him, made him feel larger than life." -- Aldous Huxley, 'Brave New World'
• "'Of course it does. Actually happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand." -- The Director, Aldous Huxley, 'Brave New World'
• "'But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vice.'" -- Mustapha Mond, Aldous Huxley, 'Brave New World'
• "'... Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility of heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency.'" -- Mustapha Mond, Aldous Huxley, 'Brave New World'
• "I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then." -- Lewis Carroll, 'Alice in Wonderland'
• "She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it)." -- Lewis Carroll, 'Alice in Wonderland'
• "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." -- Mark Twain
• "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." -- Woody Allen
• "I intend to live forever. So far, so good." -- Steven Wright
• "I intend to live forever, or die trying." -- Groucho Marx
• "Reality continues to ruin my life." -- Calvin & Hobbes