"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant."
Harlan Ellison

"My dad lives alone on the desert. He says he doesn't fit with people" -- from Motel Chronicles, Sam Shepard

“Carpe diem” was first published in a poem by Horace, in a longer quote that reads, “Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero,” or “Seize the Day, trusting as little as possible in the future.”

"It is only when the cruelty of man intervenes that hellish torments appear. For the rest, live dangerously, take things as they come. Fear naught, all will be well." Winston Churchill quoted in Churchill, by Paul Johnson.

"As president, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering. And I also want to keep an eye on those robots in case they try anything." --Barack Obama, speaking to Washington D.C. schoolkids

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Frank O'Harra

Soon after his sale to Spielberg we went out to eat together. “Have you noticed, Mike, how rude customers in restaurants have become?” he asked. “I’m not sure it’s that, Jimmy,” I said. “I think we can now afford to eat in the rude people’s restaurants.”

Michael Moorcock on JG Ballard.

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