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“Sitting there most of the night," she said, "I had a crazy kind of image. Do you think two sick twisted 'trees ever made bonsai out of one another?”
― Theodore Sturgeon

“Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all.”
― Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

“Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Sturgeon is Alive and Well

“People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.”
― Octavia E. Butler

“Living things aren't finished, you see. Everything they have ever been in contact with, each thought they have had, each person they have known - these things are still at work in them; nothing's finished.

("The Graveyard Reader")”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Weird Shadows From Beyond: An Anthology of Strange Stories

“I'm a peripheral visionary.”
― Steven Wright

“Cake or death?”
― Eddie Izzard

“Have you got a flag?”
― Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill

“Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!”
― Eddie Izzard, Definite Article

“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
― Steven Wright

“You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!”
― Eddie Izzard

“Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.”
― Theodore Sturgeon

“Never put a sock in a toaster.”
― Eddie Izzard

“We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.”
― Eddie Izzard

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
― Steven Wright

“Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?”
― Steven Wright

“A metaphor is like a simile.”
― Steven Wright

“Why are there five syllables in the word “monosyllabic”?”
― Steven Wright

“Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.”
― Steven Wright

“I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...

I've got a theor-

Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes
They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.
And what's with all the carrots-?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!

...or maybe midgets...”
― Joss Whedon Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“Michael Palin : "I am sorry to interrupt you there Dennis, but he's crossed it out. Thomas Hardy here on the first day of his new novel has crossed out the only word he has written so far and he is gazing off into space. Ohh! Oh dear he's signed his name again."
Graham Chapman: "It looks like Tess of the D'Urbervilles all over again."
- Matching Tie and Handkerchief, "Novel Writing”
― Monty Python

“Vampire Willow: "Bored now.”
― Joss Whedon

“Mal: [closing the doors] Good day!”
― Joss Whedon

“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
― Mortimer Brewster

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison