Watson Jones

“CALVIN'S DAD:
What story would you like tonight? We can read anything except...

CALVIN, INTERRUPTING HIM:
"Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie"!

CALVIN'S DAD, IN ANGUISH:
NO! No Hamster Huey tonight! We've read that book a million times!

CALVIN:
I want Hamster Huey!

CALVIN'S DAD, Nearly Pleading:
Look, you KNOW how the story goes. You've memorized the whole thing! It's the same story every day!

CALVIN, Screaming:
I want Hamster Huey!

CALVIN, LYING IN BED WITH EYES OF WONDERMENT:
Wow, the story was different THAT time!

HOBBES, LYING IN BED NEXT TO CALVIN, ALSO WITH EYES OF WONDERMENT:
Do you think the townsfolk will ever find Hamster Huey's head?”
― Bill Watterson, The Days Are Just Packed

“No matter how hard you train, somebody will train harder.

No matter how hard you run, somebody will run harder.

No matter how hard you want it, somebody will want it more.

I am somebody.”
― Steve Prefontaine

“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that—it does a lot of damage. But it is very effective when it comes to politics. When Bill Clinton said, 'I feel your pain,' that was a brilliant political move. It was total nonsense, but it worked. I prefer sympathy. Sympathy is a much better word. Sympathy is saying, 'I’m sorry for what you’re going through, I’m going to try to help you.' Empathy is like, 'I’m going to become you, I’m going to feel exactly what you’re feeling.' It’s impossible, it’s narcissistic, and it’s destructive.”
― Charlie Kirk

“They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‘first chapters’. I have indeed written many.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One