"I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing."
"One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened."
-Henry David Thoreau
"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
-James Baldwin
George W Bush's thoughts last year, on Arbor Day:
"Plant trees, it's good for the economy."
"It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining."
Several bits from one of my favorite plays:
Guildenstern: What's the first thing you remember?
Rosencrantz: [thinks] No, it's no good. It was a long time ago.
Guildenstern: I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
Rosencrantz: Or just as mad.
Guildenstern: Or just as mad.
Rosencrantz: And he does both.
Guildenstern: So there you are.
Rosencrantz: Stark raving sane.