"Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms."

-- Connie Willis

#Thinking Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Plot Quotes

“Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original art form. Spaulding Grey and Karen Finley and other spoken word artists and performance artists really very much interested me, that art form.”
“There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed.”
“When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.”
“With all my songs, I try to pull from personal experiences, like moving and changing locations.”
“The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.”

Source : Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter
“We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.”
“I always just get excited about the character. When something rings true for me, then I'm ready to do it.”
“The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.”

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