"I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience shapes what you write and what you don't write."

“Have to stay together, can't switch band, but you can have a boyfriend, have to get a boyfriend..!!!”

“While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its human factors, the vast majority of human factors studies concern the surface of hardware (keyboards, screens) or the very surface of the software (command names, menu formats).”

Source : "Ease of use: a system design challenge" by L.M. Branscomb and J.C. Thomas, IBM Systems Journal. Vol 23.3, September 1984.

“Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.”

“Sometimes I think you like me better as a wolf." "Sometimes I do. It probably has something to do with the way you CAN'T TALK.”

“Everything I loved became everything I've lost.”

“If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.”

“It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.”

Source : Henry Beston, Roger B. Swain (2001). “Herbs and the Earth”, p.4, David R. Godine Publisher

“The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.”