Odonata Larvae Quotes & Sayings

And when in doubt, be extreme. — Genesis P-Orridge

When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things, and you get the first view of what you see and you write it down. Then you walk a bit further, maybe up onto the top of a hill, and you see something else. Then you write that and you go on like that, day after day, getting different views of the same landscape really. The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process. — Roald Dahl

I've had people following me home or standing outside my house. It's strange. I just don't think people were meant to be worshipped or idolised. — Matthew Morrison

Where are you now?'
Where was I now?
Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place. — Haruki Murakami

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty; it is apt either to feign amiability, or not feigning it, to show all the repulsiveness of discontent. — George Eliot

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. — Robert Hughes

You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration — Jack Kerouac

You can't talk to thermodynamics and you can't pray to probability theory. You — Eliezer Yudkowsky

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. — George Saunders

Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most. — David Nicholls