R. K. Milholland

"There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses."

- R. K. Milholland, webcomic author

George Eliot

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."

- George Eliot, author

Lily Tomlin

"We're all in this alone."

- Lily Tomlin, comedian and actor

Mark Twain

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain, author

Frank Turner

"You're not designed to be alone."

- Frank Turner, 'Reasons Not To Be An Idiot'

George Carlin

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

- George Carlin, comedian, actor, author

Henry Miller

"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."

- Henry Miller, author and painter

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Man is the cruelest animal."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

Charles Dickens

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

- Charles Dickens, author

Jane Austen

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."

- Jane Austen, author

D. H. Lawrence

“In every living thing there is the desire for love.”

- D. H. Lawrence, author, poet, playwright and critic

Albert Einstein

"The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Pearl S. Buck

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."

- Pearl S. Buck, author and missionary