"The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night."

“His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.”

“Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.”

“If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.”

“I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.”

Source : Susan Vaught (2011). “Going Underground”, p.187, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.”

Source : "Annie Allen". Book by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1949.

“We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack of elegant explanations supporting good policies, but one that suffers bad policies due to system and meta-system level incentives.”

Source : "Public Choice Ignorance Everywhere". athousandnations.com. November 9, 2010.

“People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.”

“Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.”