"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die." Blade Runner

"Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him" Bruce Lee

"a large part of our life is carried on in a realm of meanings to which truth and falsity as such are irrelevant."

"Pope John Paul today confirmed his opposition to gay marriages. Said they are unnatural. Gay marriage is unnatural. Then he put on a pointy hat, his dress, and returned to never having sex at all." Bill Maher on Politically Incorrect

"For anyone aware of his own soul, promises and solemn vows are an impossibility." Natsume Soseky, The Miner

"Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life." Lawrence Kasdan

"A low growl trickled from Jamil's human throat. The sound alone raised the hair on my arms. "I am Sköll, and you have no name among the lukoi. Your voice is only the wind outside our cave." Jason took a few steps closer. "The trees themselves bow before the wind," he said. Blue Moon  by Laurell K. Hamilton

"If I were truly fey down to my toes, I'd do Uther myself. That's what a real friend would do." A Kiss Of Shadows   by Laurell K. Hamilton

"don't fill the front lines of their war those assholes aren't worth dying for Not So Soft: Roll With It  by Ani DiFranco

Doyle: "I've been sent. By the Powers That Be." Angel: "The powers that be what?" From "Angel" (TV Series, spinoff of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer")

"The past isn't dead. It isn't even past." William Faulkner

"Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars." Arthur Koestler (author of Darkness at Noon)

"It is curious how people seem to accept morality as a system of not doing things, rather than doing them." D. Valiente

"It is all real, it is all metaphor; there is always more..." NROOGD, 1972

"Courage can be summoned in the darkest hour, hope sustained when all seems lost, and good luck cought as it flies across the web of time." Mike Nichols

"There are fewer metaphors around than people think." Terry Prachett, Small Gods

"..when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"Life invariably bursts through the constructs of thought in which we try to contain it, innocently eluding our grasp in anomaly, paradox, ambiguity and contradiction." Stephen Batchelor, Alone With Others

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive." W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

"Reach out your hand, Kon. Feel the thing you killed. That's her, that's the goddess...merely flesh, and under the flesh and fleas and fur is the pus of her we forgot." Marvin Kaye and Parke Godwin, The Masters of Solitude

Most people make their life choices by default and accept the machinery of culture/society that pushes them to become consummers and breeders, without stopping to realize that there is always another choice.

"Ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between the hunter and the victim, between the successful and the defeated." Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"The wind whistles around the house and the rain patters on the glass and I am alone. It seems as if all the world has left me and I am sad and lonely... It is hard to live this homeless life with no hope of it ending. Year after year of constant toiling like a gallery slave and no chance of release, and for what? Just merely to work to help others who do not want to be helped. It would be so easy to close one's eyes, shut out the pain and sorrow of living, and sleep - such a long restful sleep that one would never grow tired again." Anna Howard Shaw

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow." Samuel Clemens, Following the Equator

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