"Life sucks, but the alternative is unacceptable."

On first impulse, I agree with this statement. On second thought, I don't. I still don't know how I feel about it.

Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mold into whatever shape he likes. So it was with Holgrave. He could talk sagely about the world's old age, but never actually believed what he said; he was a young man still, and ( Read more... )

Excerpted from "Women Rule", Michelle R. Bardsley in Writer's Digest/March 2005:

The Alpha Heroine's Inner Goddess: HeraHera was the queen of the gods and the patron goddess of marriage. She took a dim view of adultery. In fact, she spent a great deal of time exacting revenge on her husband, Zeus', illicit lovers and any children from those unions ( Read more... )

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
-- Joseph Chilton Pierce

Once upon a time, this was very interesting and important to me. Right now, I can't imagine why.

Definition ( Read more... )

"You hang on to your pain like it means something. Like it's worth something. Well, let me tell you, it's not worth shit. Let it go! Infinite possibilities, and all he can do is whine."

"Well, what am I supposed to do?"

"What do you think? You can do anything, you lucky bastard -- you're alive! What's a little pain compared to that ( Read more... )

He had not played God, bringing forth human beings who would live in an explosion of intelligence, sudden fireworks instead of single, low-burning candles. But he had found a key God had hidden in the human genome. Someone else, some follower, some insatiably curious soul, some would-be visionary longing to take human beings to the next stage of ( Read more... )

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not becasue they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."

Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

A young Malcolm X described the zoot suit as: "a killer-diller coat with a drape shape, reet pleats and shoulders padded like a lunatic's cell."

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison ( Read more... )