"Go to hell, there is no work to be done in heaven."
--- Buddha

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—
and there was no one left to speak out.

---Rev. Martin Niemöller (January 14, 1892 - March 6, 1984) was a German Lutheran pastor who was an opponent of Adolf Hitler.

"You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin to say."

---Willie Nelson (Shotgun WIllie)

"Just because I am good ice climber doesn't mean I am good at anything else; it only means I am a good ice climber."

---Barry Blanchard

JOE HELLER

True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a Billionaire
on Shelter Island.
I said, "Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel 'Catch-22'
has earned in its entire history?"
And Joe said, "I've got something he can never have."
And I said, "What on earth could that be, Joe?"
And Joe said, "The knowledge that I've got enough."
Not bad!  Rest in peace!

---Kurt Vonnegut (New Yorker, May 16th, 2005)

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, 
and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a 
scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."

---M. Cartmill

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

“The New Colossus,” by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma Lazarus.