"The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south."

“The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.”

“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.173, Macmillan

“I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.”

“I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.”

“I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.”

“human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.”

Source : Sally Carrighar (1974). “Home to the wilderness: a personal journey”, Viking Pr

“The public firm can nowhere maintain itself in free competition with the private firm; it is possible today only where it has a monopoly that excludes competition. Even that alone is evidence of its lesser economic productivity.”

“I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.”