I must endure the torturing ray, And, with all beauty, all desire. Ah, time-long must the effort be, And far the way that I must go To bring my spirit unto thee, Behind the glass, within the glow.

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

Tracy Chapman

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

Pat Travers

The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

David Richo

The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Lord Chesterfield

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Virginia Woolf

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

Robert Mugabe

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

Lisa Unger

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Aldous Huxley

Before you decide if someone is beautiful close your eyes and listen.

Evette Carter

Go away, I'm all right!

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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