Some of my favorites are the colors hot pink, turquoise, purple, and chicken

A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year, and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression.

--Samuel Johnson

More and more my language appears to me like a veil which one has to tear apart in order to get those things (or the nothingness) lying behind it.

--Samuel Beckett