Dan Sickles Quotes

#1. People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be forgiven. It is not the departure for pleasure that is unacceptable, it is waking up happy.

Michel Foucault

#2. If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.

Brett Armstrong

#3. Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

Naguib Mahfouz

#4. I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Carl Sagan

#5. A man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat

E. E. Cummings

#6. The Olympic movement simply cannot allow the Russians to become estranged, because Russia is a vital part of the world sports community, in the sense of having nuclear missiles.

Dave Barry

#7. Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

Jasper Fforde

#8. Since the beginning is where things seem perfect and the ending is always tragic, why don't we skip to the middle? There're good things in the middle.

Jay Crownover

#9. Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life.

Jaggi Vasudev

#10. What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

Chuck Tanner

#11. It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Cory Doctorow