“Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.”

“The movie creaked along, obvious and mediocre plot. Mediocre script, mediocre music. They ought to have sealed the thing in a time capsule and marked "Late 20th Century Mediocrity" and buried it somewhere.”

“People can generally be classified into two groups: the mediocre realists and the mediocre dreamers. You clearly belong to the latter. Your fate is and will always be the fate of a dreamer.”

“The world’s crawling with stupid,innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciouslychasing after dreams that’ll never come true. I should shut thepiano lid and come down off the stage. Before it’s too late.”

“I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.”

“No te compadezcas de ti mismo. Eso sólo lo hacen los mediocres.-Nagasawa”

“mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.”