"Vaster is Man than his works."

-- Rockwell Kent

“For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.”
“Opposition is true friendship.”
“One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob ...”

Source : Mona Van Duyn (1990). “Near changes: poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.”
“The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale,”
“There's no question that the number one contributor to climate change is livestock production. The quickest way to make an effect is to immediately start on a vegan diet.”
“Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.”
“Do whatever you must, Karigan," he told her, his voice so quiet it would not carry, "to come back. You must come back. To me." ~King Zachary”

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