Forrest Francis

“Maybe these are our salad days."
"Huh?"
"You know. Happy."
"What's happy about a salad?"
She shrugged. "Ranch," she said.”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“Mathematics is the music of reason. To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion—not because it makes no sense to you, but because you gave it sense and you still don't understand what your creation is up to; to have a break-through idea; to be frustrated as an artist; to be awed and overwhelmed by an almost painful beauty; to be alive, damn it.”
― Paul Lockhart , A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

“But tomorrow came faster than expected, as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of every present, merely untwining itself again and again into a new distinction that could never be new again.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain