"Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes."

“You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund”

“"Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.”

“Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.”

Source : Allison Winn Scotch (2012). “The Song Remains the Same”, p.248, Penguin

“Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.”

“Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the dark void, like an infinitely tenuous smoke rising from an extinguished fire. Upon these motes, these gigantic worlds, the ultimate populations had created here and there with their artificial lighting a pale glow, invisible even from the innermost ring of lifeless planets.”

“Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.”

“With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.”

“All top players are the same strokewise, but mentally I can improve and that's where it's at for top players.”