Nina May

“What was it like in there? Inside a daisy?” My answer: “Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey.”
― Tom Robbins, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life

“Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did... You stay in, we'll laugh and drink fruit liqueur and we'll drive away your depression in a flash. I'll sing if you like. Or else let's go and sit in the dark in your study as we used to, and you'll tell me about your depression... You have such suffering eyes. I'll look into them and cry, and we'll both feel better.”
― Anton Chekhov, Ivanov

“Who are these characters? What do they want? Why do they want it? How do they go about getting it? What stops them? What are the consequences? Finding the answers to these grand questions and shaping them into story is our overwhelming creative task.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.”
― Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito