Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Barry White

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Dick Cavett

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

John Ciardi

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

Thom Yorke

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

Norman MacCaig

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

John Churton Collins

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

Victor Hugo

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that Love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

Thomas Merton

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Gertrude Stein

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Anzia Yezierska

Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.

Kurt Vonnegut