"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots." -- Isak Dinesen (died 1962)

Optimism

"Which came first: the intestine or the tapeworm?" -- William S. Burroughs (died 1997)

You Know It In Your Gut

"Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have." -- Emile M. Cioran (died 1995)

Take Your Licking and Keep On Ticking

"To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature." -- Ernst Fischer (died 1972)

Sleep on This

"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars." -- Abbie Hoffman (died 1989)

Peace Meal