The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way. Mark Twain, Speech in NYC, Jan. 22, 1906

Swearing is like any other music…If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression,...

Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais

Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying,losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy. Scott Alexander, film writer and director

Death ends a life, not a relationship. Morrie Swartz, Tuesdays with Morrie (book)

English is the easiest language to speak badly. George Bernhard Shaw

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being