Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

James Baldwin

I have a dress fitting to get to at three.' (Simon)'Cool,' said Kyle, slinging his messenger bag over his shoulder and heading for the door. 'Get them to make you something in red. It's totally your color.

Cassandra Clare

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Thomas Fuller

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

A. J. Liebling, The Press, 1961

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

Octavia Butler

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.

Eva Green

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded; if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities.

Robert Macleod

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Edmund Burke

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Henry Bolingbroke

Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. Dr. Martin Luther King

Walden and Civil Disobedience

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Nigella Lawson

No man can walk out on his own story.

Spirit of the West