"[F]olks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid [nitrogen] and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects."

-- Stephen Baxter

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Tree Quotes

“God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.”
“The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie,”
“When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money.”
“My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.”
“Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get”
“I leave with sadness, but also with pride,”

Source : "Rahul Dravid retires from cricket 'with sadness but also with pride'", www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.
“For better or worse, I've become the person the Adams Estate has entrusted to guide Dirk Gently into new mediums and to new audiences. I take that responsibility pretty seriously, which is, I'm guessing, where Ilias's comment about me being a "hands-on collaborator" (code for control freak) comment comes from.”

Source : "Nailed It!: David and Kyriazis on 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'". Interview with Keith Silva, comicsbulletin.com. March 8, 2016.
“I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.”

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