We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

Terry Pratchett

Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

John Steinbeck

There is always time for another last minute

Terry Pratchett

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

Charles Bukowski

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Benito Mussolini

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

William Feather

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

Donald Knuth

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Neil Gaiman

It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of what we are and what we do in the world. Only such a new understanding will allow us to develop new models of behavior, new scales of values and goals, and thereby invest the global regulations, treaties and institutions with a new spirit and meaning.

Vaclav Havel, 2001

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Henry David Thoreau

We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards

William Shakespeare