You’re going to have things to repent, boy. . . . That’s one of
the best things there is. You can always decide whether to
repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.

—Ernest Hemingway, “The Last Good Country”

. . . unknowing youth, savage with health and
armed to the teeth with time.

—Philip Roth, Exit Ghost

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.

—William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Life is trouble. Only death is not.
To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.

—Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek