I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

Vincent Bugliosi

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

Bill Bryson

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

Henry David Thoreau

the mystic must be steadily told, All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric, universal signs, instead of these village symbols, and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Henri Nouwen

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

David Letterman

A louse in the locks of literature.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Alphonse Karr

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

Proverb

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Bergen Evans

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

G. K. Chesterton, "On the Crypti