Taken together, these studies suggest that at times depressed people are 'sadder but wiser' than nondepressed people. Nondepressed people succumb to cognitive illusions that enable them to see both themselves and their environment with a rosy glow. -- Lauren B. Alloy...

If a butchered hog’s melt faces toward the head, the worst part of winter will be the early part. If a butchered hog’s melt faces more to the back, the latter part of winter will be the worst. -- Helen Lane, 1964 The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we...

Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. -- Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Jerry: If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would...

And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began. -- Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again The large marble ball was centered delicately atop the courthouse spire for sixty...

You know, Beaver, I’m afraid you have the wrong attitude. And if you don’t start buckling down and applying yourself, one of these days you’re gonna come up against a test or something, and find out you’re way behind the rest of the class. And you’re going to be a...

I’d be absorbed... trapped, held prisoner if you’d like in the host’s brain, unable to control anything, forever doomed to watch the world through someone else’s eyes. -- Dr. Lester, Being John Malkovich Dog Contest’s 'Too Much' and 'Taking Down My Ego' are paragraphs...

Bascomb believed, as Cocteau once said, that the writing of poetry was the exploitation of a substratum of memory that was imperfectly understood. -- John Cheever, The World of Apples Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant...

And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? And what dread feet? — William Blake, The Tyger She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary Ula...