"If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet."

“Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.”

Source : William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.208

“It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird.”

“We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.”

“High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.”

“In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.”

Source : "Transcript: David Kay at Senate hearing". www.cnn.com. January 28, 2004.

“At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.”

“Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness to it.”