"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar;"

“I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.”

Source : John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.113, Macmillan

“In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.”

“The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

“If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day”

“Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.”

“Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.”

“There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.”