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“The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.”
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“Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.”
Source : James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”
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“I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.”
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“I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.”
Source : "FASHION ICON CARMEN DELL’OREFICE ON LOVE, SEX & SECRETS TO HER SUCCESS". New You Interview, www.newyou.com. February 10, 2015. 
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“Luneta and her parents started and whirled around, to see Terence standing just inside Luneta's door. "Deuce it, Terence!" Luneta's father expostulated. "You'll kill someone that way someday! How did you get inside without any of us hearing you?" "I came in the door, of course," Terence replied, stepping forward. He held two swords in scabbards, which he tossed onto Luneta's bed as he approaced. "For anyone else, the hinges would have squeaked," Luneta's father muttered.”
Source : Gerald Morris (2008). “The Lioness and Her Knight”, p.256, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“In order to understand the phenomena in a certain plasma region, it is necessary to map not only the magnetic but also the electric field and the electric currents. Space is filled with a network of currents which transfer energy and momentum over large or very large distances. The currents often pinch to filamentary or surface currents. The latter are likely to give space, as also interstellar and intergalactic space, a cellular structure.”
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“I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.”
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“The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.”
