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“It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.”
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“[Heihei] is stupidest chicken on planet Earth and mascot.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy.”
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“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”
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“We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?”
Source : Bonnie Friedman (1993). “Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life”
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“I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.”
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“So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.”
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“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”
Source : Guy de Maupassant (2007). “The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant”, p.468, Wildside Press LLC
