"Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half."

-- Samuel Butler

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“I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.”
“If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social problems. I felt gloomy under this social dictatorship. Looking back, I feel like I never saw a sunrise in Seoul.”
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”

Source : Sunday Herald Sun (Australia), January 13, 2003.
“Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge.”
“The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.”
“Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning.”

Source : Jean Shinoda Bolen (2007). “Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness As A Soul Journey”, p.227, Conari Press
“My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.”

Source : Glen Cook (1988). “Cold Copper Tears”, p.8, Penguin
“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.”

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