But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Mahatma Gandhi

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Swami Vivekananda

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Alexander Pope

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. They did not have long to explore the sexual revolution and make it their own. Before the old chains had grown cold, while young women were still rubbing the circulation back into their ankles and taking tentative steps forward, the beauty industries levied a heavy toll on further investigations, and beauty pornography offered them designer bondage.

Naomi Wolf

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

Thomas Hardy

A budding fashionista even at four, I would capture the little lizards and latch them, still living, onto my earlobes as earrings. Most girls wouldn't touch them, I thought they completed the outfit.

Mireya Mayor

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

Washington Irving

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

Bill Monroe

Let us play hide and seek in a mountain which is like a women's back.

Santosh Kalwar

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is then being miserable to know oneself to be miserable; but it is also being great to know that one is miserable.

Blaise Pascal

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

Jock Sturges