Stop reading for a moment and ponder this: Do you feel that you are wasting your life? Why?
– Clifford Pickover, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
Let’s agree to meet a thousand years from now and have a party.
– Clifford Pickover, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
…all room has no shadow.
– Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
All along the tendency to deplore the absence of more has not been authorized.
– Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
All the time that there was a question there was a decision.
– Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
A prism in the dark is just a hunk of glass.
– James Platt, personal communication, in Clifford Pickover’s A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
According to the legend, when humans were first created from mud, the resulting creatures could not see and dissolved if caught in the rain.
– Clifford Pickover, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
Lately my hands they don’t feel like mine
My eyes been stung with dust and blind
Held you in my arms one time
Lost you just the same
– Zac Brown Band, Jolene
We have a mission; we must serve it, or it won’t serve us.
– Brian Aldiss, Greybeard
What the agnostic believed and what the willowy parson believed were not only irreconcilable systems of thought: they were equally valid systems of thought, because somewhere along the evolutionary line, man, developing this habit of thinking of symbols, had provided himself with more alternatives than he could manage.
– Brian Aldiss, Greybeard