At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To tell you the truth, I'm something of an atheist.

Terry Pratchett

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Johann von Goethe

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

William Hurt

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

Mitch Hedberg

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Peter McWilliams

There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

Ibn Gabirol

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Joseph Conrad