Delany says in "Zack and Miri Make a Porno"..... I like that white boy, but if he tries to fuck that little dog tomorrow night for real I'm calling the ASPCA." Quote might not be exact, I'm going off of memory.
It's not the absolute best but it's pretty damn good:
One charmed afternoon, as the result of a series of misunderstandings and coincidences, I found myself on a small sailboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a thousand miles and more from any land...
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
E.E.CUMMINGS
Look, I'm sorry your life turned out so bad. But don't blame me you messed it up yourself. You just focused on the bad stuff when all you had to do was... let go of the past and keep moving forward
"After using the silken rope... never again be content with hemp." - Miles Malleson, as the hangman in Kind Hearts and Coronets. The movie's full of quotable lines, but that one sums up the spirit of the whole thing.
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;"
"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. "
"Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth."
–Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa)