Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

William H. Davies

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

David Bowie

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.

Samuel Beckett

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Franz Kafka

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Mary Wortley Montagu

If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.

Anon.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Dean Koontz

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

Arthur Quinn, Figures of Speech,

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Kurt Vonnegut

News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder.

Jess Rothenberg

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.

Michel de Montaigne

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

G. K. Chesterton