"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."

-- Henry Spencer

“As long as I'm alive, you'll never see the last of Lightning!”
“To live passionately, we ought to be able to look once again at the people we once cared for deeply and painfully.”
“To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing”
“All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.”
“Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.”

Source : Twitter post from May 11, 2013
“The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it.”
“I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because youre literally not dependent on anybody.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com

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