Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. ― Jeffrey Eugenides

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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.

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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. ― Patrick Rothfuss

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A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

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There's no tyrant like a brain.

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Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.

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All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

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Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.- Mitch Hedberg

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I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

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