Margie

“The world had become something no schoolchild should be allowed to discover.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“That is one of the great mistakes people make: assuming that someone who does menial work does not like thinking. Physical labor is great for the mind, as it leaves all kinds of time to consider the world. Other work, like accounting or scribing, demands little of the body—but siphons energy from the mind.

If you wish to become a storyteller, here is a hint: sell your labor, but not your mind. Give me ten hours a day scrubbing a deck, and oh the stories I could imagine. Give me ten hours adding sums, and all you’ll have me imagining at the end is a warm bed and a thought-free evening.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“after a certain age a man grows a beard not to enter manhood but to put a barrier to his youth,”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean.”
― Richard Powers, Playground