Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

When we become a part of anything, it becomes a part of us.

David Harold Fink

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.

Ben Irwin

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Anon.

If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say,Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Orhan Pamuk

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Socrates

I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much so that I hardly realized they were doing it. I want always to keep that sort of thing in mind when I'm teaching. The way you get better in everything in this life is to make mistakes. Otherwise you're probably doing it right by accident. But you have to do everything wrong before you can really start with some authority to do it right.http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/stanfordtoday/ed/9809/9809fea101.shtml

Tobias Wolff, interview with Sta

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.

Cecelia Ahern

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Adlai E. Stevenson

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Sweedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Edith Wharton

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Alan Moore