I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.

Jesse Bennett

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Joanna Field

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

Frantz Fanon

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Richard Powers

Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.- William Herondale

Cassandra Clare

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

John Ray

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

John Wooden

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Alice Walker

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Oliver Goldsmith

What I took away from reading the Snowden documents was that if the NSA wants in to your computer, it's in. Period.

Bruce Schneier

The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.

Senator John Kerry