“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” 

- H.G. Wells

“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”

- W.H. Auden

“…From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.”

- Robert Frost, Fire and Ice

“We’re gonna live in Nashville, and I’ll make a career out of writing sad songs and getting paid by the tear.”

- Silver Jews, “Tennessee”

“It is not everyone,’ said Elinor, ‘who has your passion for dead leaves.”

- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He’s gotta pick this one. He’s got to. I don’t see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there’s not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.”

- Linus Van Pelt, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

“And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.” 

- Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall

“A chicken ain’t nothin’ but a bird.”

- Cab Calloway

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” 

- John Muir