"Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action taken now, in anticipation of supposed long run trends, may concentrate on the wrong issues and make matters worse rather than better."

“Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skilful than yesterday, more skilful than today. This is never-ending.”

“I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.”

“The business of books is the business of life.”

“Nothing is possible without love.”

“Self-Reliance is a prerequisite to the complete freedom to act.”

“Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.577, Macmillan

“Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.”

Source : "Solar-powered plane lands safely after 26-hour flight". www.bbc.com. July 8, 2010.

“A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke”

Source : Max Eastman (1939). “Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics”