"How unlike a dead fish a live fish is."

-- Maxine Hong Kingston

“The most important thing is not to allow yourself to find an excuse that will let you not to do something you really want. Doing compromises makes people weaker.”
“The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.”
“No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.”
“Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?”

Source : Zell Miller (2005). “Zell Miller A Senator Speaks Out on Patriotism Values and Character”, p.113, Xulon Press
“I've been writing forever, 20 years.”

Source : "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.
“I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.”
“As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.”
“In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives.”

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