"What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.”

“Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.”

“We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.”

“Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.”

“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.”

“Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.”

“The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.”

“Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.”

“A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.”