Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

Jim Jarmusch

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

C. S. Lewis

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.

Edwin Markham

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Joe Elliott

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Victor Cousin

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

Taylor Dayne

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

G. K. Chesterton

Scent is the strongest tie to memory.

Maggie Stiefvater

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

Herb Caen

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Lillian Hellman, The Watch on th

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Elbert Hubbard

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.

Barbara Ehrenreich