I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Thomas Carlyle

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My boy of steel. My man of honor. My perfect friend. My timeless soldier.

Coco J. Ginger

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

Loretta Lynn

Custom is second nature.

Augustine of Hippo

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Baltasar Gracian

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Herbert Spencer

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Bertolt Brecht

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Mark Twain

It's very uncomfortable to hear them used when I don't agree with what's being said. But I recognize that those songs have entered into a bigger life, a life all their own. They belong to the audience. How they're used isn't always something I can control.

Tom Petty

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Thomas Keneally