I cannot be unhappy

"As long as this exists," I thought, "and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy."

- Ann Frank

Ignorance

... nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

― Isaac Asimov

Holding the universe together

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

- J.D. Salinger

Interpretation

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

- Susan Sontag