Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you now. The…

“Perfection is not real. Perfection is not human. Carlos is not perfect- no, even better- he is imperfect. Everything about him, and us, and…

— Welcome to Night Vale

“And at fifty, Less muses drowsily, you’re as likable as you’re going to get.”

— Andrew Sean Greer

“I take a nap after supper and dream of the U.S. Navy, a ship anchored near a war scene, at an island, but everything…

— Jack Kerouac

In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We…

— Douglas Coupland

We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone.

— Douglas Coupland

“Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.”

— Ann Patchett

“Mostly we don't get destroyed," John said. "Mostly we destroy ourselves.”

— Joseph Fink

“Science was meant to be hard. After all, what was science but a bunch of bored human beings trying to challenge themselves when faith…

— Anonymous

“The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles…

— Cecil Baldwin

“The present is the only thing we can control and is the only thing we can change.”

— William Wyatt

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American…

— Hugh Evans

To have a future we have to live and leave the present.

— Akiane Kramarik

My last defense / Is the present tense.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“My past is what God expects me to use to help others through their present.”

— Toni Sorenson

I don't try to be something I'm not, I don't try to pretend that I'm something I'm not, I don't try to present myself…

— Michael Capuano