"All minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not understand each other."

“I don't fix anybody, because I don't think anybody's broken. I think what people have are patterns, and those can be changed. People quickly understand that what's controlling their thoughts and emotions are their values and rules, and they learn how to shift those.”

“Al's red eyes slid past me to Pierce. "Play?" he said, his voice dripping with interest. "Gordian Nathaniel Pierce's quirks are legendary. Why do you think I want the runt so badly? Size truly doesn't matter if you can do what he can." ~ Algaliarept, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison”

“I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.”

“World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.”

“Being scared is normal. My technique for erasing it is facing it. Be afraid and brave. Be nervous and courageous. The first few minutes of being scared is your test to see if you're really serious about reaching a goal. Push through anxiety and come out victorious. Fear is just a test. Honor the feeling. Know it's there. Know it's temporary. Face it to erase it.”

“Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.”

“Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.”

Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.80, Macmillan

“The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.”

Source : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp