Gabe Long

“Tonight, as you eat, reflect if you can: there are children starving in the world, starving in numbers larger than the mind can easily hold, up in the big numbers where an error of a million here, a million there, can be forgiven. It may be uncomfortable for you to reflect upon this or it may not, but still, you will eat.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Carpenters don’t make their saws and hammers, tailors don’t make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don’t make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make their hammers, tongs, anvils, and chisels”
― Daniel C. Dennett, Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

“Enoch pulled the hood back from his head and said, “What was really magnificent about that entrance, Jack, was that, until the moment you rose up out of the pool all covered in phosphorus, you were invisible—you just seemed to materialize, weapon in hand, with that Dwarf-cap, shouting in a language no one understands. Have you considered a career in the theatre?”
― Neal Stephenson, The Baroque Cycle: The Complete New York Times Bestselling Trilogy of Historical Intrigue and Adventure