"It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else."

“The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.”

“Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.”

“Looking and seeing are two different things.”

“Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.”

Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.178, Rowman & Littlefield

“The thingy? You want me, the most intelligent cognitive processor in the known worlds, to say thingy?""Yes," I reaffirmed. "That is correct."Do you stay up nights thinking of ways to humiliate me?" HARV asked.”

“The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.”

“It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.”

Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1848). “Poems of Early and After Years”, p.246

“Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.”