The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

Tim Cahill

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result

Mahatma Gandhi

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Benjamin Franklin

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

Leroy Burrell

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Norman Mailer

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

E. M. Cioran

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Karl Jaspers

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Bliss Carman

We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it.

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Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children

John Green