89 quotes found
“Sooner or later you realize there are no answers, no answers except the ones you believe. Sooner or later faith is the only answer left.”
“Once you realize that life and love are not things you can possess but forces that emanate through us and through all creation, then you can begin to appreciate the miracle you are a part of. You c...”
“Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.”
“Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.”
“Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.”
“I write pre-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, Im not interested in a future where everything is blown to hell, Id rather write something that helps to prevent it from happening.”
“Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left.”
“But failure and success are labels placed upon peoples lives the way a child values winning a game whether or not they have to bend the rules in order to do it. But life is not a game and the rules...”
“Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those theyve known for a lifetime.”
“Intelligence resides between us as much as it resides in us. And it resides within the subconscious much more than it does the conscious. Were just conscious-biased: our conscious mind wants us to ...”
“They are always the problem. There is no evil in this world you cannot blame on them. The world will never be right as long as they exist. Whereas we are right, we are always right. We desire to ma...”
“Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.”
“If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.”
“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.”
“He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.”
“Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.”
“Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.”
“To be young and to experience the feeling of being alive is a sweet feeling. To feel alive and to have a purpose and a goal to that life is better still.”
“I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.”
“There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past.”
