Jeff

“A crystal clear Colorado sky opens above us, a blue so deep it makes you dizzy. The occasional bright white wispy cloud dances across the firmament, punctuating the deep blue vault of heaven stretching over this paradise.”
― Neil Hanson, Pilgrim Wheels: Reflections of a Cyclist Crossing America

“You have to jump around in time to get the facts right. Linear chronology makes for good popular storytelling, but it doesn’t always capture the deep causes that drive history. Some causes are proximate, in the moment. Some are echoes of distant shock waves, still reverberating a hundred—or a thousand—years later.”
― Steven Johnson, Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt

“Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.”
― Dean Koontz, Dragon Tears

“You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind