Dorschner Quotes & Sayings

John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great. — Dave Barry

Soon I will return to the office, to shuffle paper, delete emails and avoid the Typing Dead. — Fennel Hudson

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light. — Meher Baba

I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt. — Suzanne Collins

If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough. — Ingrid Newkirk

I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring. — Belinda Jeffrey

All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today. — Wendell Berry

Love selflessly, give generously;
everything and everyone will be yours. — Debasish Mridha

The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left. — Martha Manning

Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the raven, "Nevermore. — Edgar Allan Poe

You get a buzz when getting texts: 'Oh, someone's thinking about me.' — Spike Jonze