Incompletion Quotes

#1. Understand that when the beast within you
succeeds again in paralyzing into unending
incompletion whatever you again had the temerity to
try to make
its triumph is made sweeter by confirmation of its
rectitude. It knows that it alone
knows you.

Frank Bidart

#2. Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

Saul Steinberg

#3. Two hallmarks of Homo Sapiens are decoration and self-identification.

Carl Zimmer

#4. I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love. It had helped me to survive, this lovely world that was to be mine when the war was over.

Gerda Weissmann Klein

#5. Days like today should come with a warning label, I muse. Today's Going to Suck! Skip the Coffee and Go Straight for the Alcohol.

Laura Kreitzer

#6. Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career)

Slim Aarons

#7. She picked up the ballpoint pen lying on the table, and played with it for a few seconds, but then she looked at the clock again. It had done its job: in the five minutes since her last look, it had advanced five minutes' worth.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Syn bio tech had come on stream, springing full-grown from the bench like the Incredible Hulk bursting his lab coat, a great green monster that sucked carbon dioxide from the air and sprouted wood, pissed oil, and shat diamonds.

Ken MacLeod

#9. I'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part.

John Logan

#10. Great grace, great life.

Lailah Gifty Akita