Sunday
Mar302014
Quite Quotable

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.
Jack Vance, The Dying Earth
Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.
Jack Vance, The Dying Earth
Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.
Stanislaw Lem, "King Globares and the Sages."
It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
Robert Heinlein, "Waldo"
Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit. Gravity is easy-peasy by comparison.
Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Dead
Each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore