Michael Vogl

“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“I wish I were. I wish. I were-what? A pair of ragged clauses scuttling between two dark parentheses? Possibly I am.”
― Malcolm Lowry, Ultramarine