Gabriel Stanovsky

“No, she simply felt - at times, mind you, not all the time, but at sharp and distinctive intuitive moments - as if she had no real existence, except for what she said and did and perceived and et cetera, and that these were, it seemed at such times, not really under her control. There was nothing pure.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System

“(Quoting Cus D'Amato)
Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it.”
― Mike Tyson

“Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.”
― Stanisław Lem, His Master's Voice

“write down what I observe in my notebooks. I do this for two reasons. The first is that Writing inculcates habits of precision and carefulness. The second is to preserve whatever knowledge I possess for you, the Sixteenth Person.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi