"Novel writing wrecks homes."

“No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.”

Source : "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.

“If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue the lives of their enemies! As they learn to hear of the loss of five hundred or a thousand of their own men, with perhaps less feeling than they would hear of the death of a favorite horse or dog, so they learn to hear of the death of thousands after thousands on the side of the enemy with joy and exultation.”

Source : Noah Worcester, Massachusetts Peace Society (Founded 1815) (1816). “The friend of peace”, p.24

“Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order.”

“Our choice, always, is to love and understand.”

Source : Ping Fu (2012). “Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds”, p.172, Penguin UK

“The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.”

“Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.”

“I was having my teens in my 30s.”

“Discern the vital few from the trivial Many.”