"I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done."

“I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.”

“The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.”

“What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?”

Source : Terry Brooks (2012). “Terry Brooks Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: The Sword of Shannara, Magic Kingdom for Sale: Sold!, Running with the Demon, Armageddon's Children”, p.426, Del Rey

“A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.”

Source : "Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art". Book by John Szarkowski, 1973.

“You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.”

“He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.”

“My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.

“It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.”

Source : Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press