Mike Fowler

“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

“All our work had been very little, no great change had been made. And it was all my fault. I’d been so fascinated by the motion that I’d forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I’d been asleep, dreaming.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus! —
Why look'st thou so?' — With my cross-bow
I shot the Albatross.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“A snowflake would land on the pane, glance at the woman, and melt...”
― Anton Chekhov, Fifty-Two Stories