Each moment is a place I've never been. MS

That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you. Don DeLillo, Libra

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time. - Thoreau

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. A. Einstein

There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his fall halfway down the side of the cliff, holding on for dear life. There was a clump of strawberries beside him, and certain death above him and below. What should he do? went the question. And the reply was, Eat the strawberries. The story had never made sense to him as a boy. It did now. Neil Gaiman - American Gods

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms. Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not”. Yogi Berra, Yankee philosopher

A native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one." The grandson asked him, which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered: "The one I feed." Native Cherokee Tale

Truth is always concrete. B. Brecht

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. - H. D. Thoreau

All great literature is one of two stories: a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. - Tolstoy Leo