"Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound."

-- William Goldman

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“We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.”
“Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no way at all but to have instead the wit constantly to make one's way anew from the materials at hand.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2010). “Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art”, p.398, Macmillan
“When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.”
“No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.”
“Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy,”

Source : "Davos: unions call for businesses to share fruits of growth with employees" by Larry Elliott, Jill Treanor, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2015.
“In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.”
“There are no fans more rabid or devoted than KISS fans. KISS fans are what all other fans are measured against. That's how it came to be known as the KISS Army.”

Source : "There are no fans more rabid or devoted than KISS fans. KISS fans are what all other fans are measured against. That's how it came to be known as the KISS Army". Interview with Linda Leseman, www.laweekly.com. October 3, 2011.
“A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.”

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