“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.”
 - Eugene O’Neill

“Just when the catepillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.”
 - proverb

“There’s a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there’s a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain’t no either or proposition. We’re talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can’t hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!”
- Chris Stevens in “Northern Exposure”

“You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It’s feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn’t getting hit with lightning today, it’s an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lyme disease. Either way, you’re ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.”
- Adam in “Northern Exposure”

“Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of your time.”
- Frankie in “Dream for an Insomniac”

“Choices are like connecting highways. They all take you to the same place. Some just take longer to get there.”
- Frankie in “Dream for an Insomniac”

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
- Robert Heinlein

      “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
- Douglas Adams

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
- Douglas Adams

“How can I believe there’s a butterfly inside you or me when all I see is a fuzzy worm?”
- Yellow, “Hope for the Flowers”

“I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.”
- Michael Pollan

“It’s best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life.”
- Maude in “Harold and Maude”

“Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?”
- Frank in “Donnie Darko”

“I’d say I’m a pretty darn good father. My father tried to eat me, I don’t remember trying to eat Timmy.” - Bill Robinson in “Fido”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely…”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn’t understand alloys and compositions and things with… molecular structures.”
- Ash in “Army of Darkness”

“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfection.”
- Anonymous

“‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”