“I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog –  To tell one's name – the livelong June –  To an admiring Bog!”  ― Emily Dickinson ...

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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”  ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters ...

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“Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.”  ― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage “I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.”  ― David Thewlis, The Late Hector Kipling ...

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“Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.”  ― Michel Foucault, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia “Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people.  By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.”  ― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident ...

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“Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.”  ― Emily Dickinson ...

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