"In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Sleep Quotes #Cat Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.”
“In some ways, it would be nice to stay younger, but I feel pretty happy about growing older... Personally, I don't have a lot of the regular hand-ups with getting older that some people do. I've never tried to disguise my age. People find out anyway.”
“Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.”
“It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.”
“But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.”
“Deep down I'm a lazy person in a constantly moving body.”
“Well! I had the most fantastic dream! Trees crying blood. Horrible dead elves going around and killing people! Raistlin wearing black robes! It was the most incredible thing! And you were there, Sturm. Laurana and Flint. And everyone died! Well, almost everyone. Raistlin didn't. And there was a green dragon-' Tasslehoff stopped. What was wrong with his friends? Their faces were pale, their eyes wide.”

Source : Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (1985). “Dragons of Winter Night”, Random House Books for Young Readers
“There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free.”

Source : Rose Tremain (1995). “Sacred Country”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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