Julie Verive

“Today, tonight is no time to be asleep— moon viewing!”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho

“never really understood their attitudes about sex. Why did they get so hung up on that one issue, when there were others like murder, war, poverty, and pestilence?”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

“When I was a boy I was taught that there were only five flavors in the world, and all the world’s joys and sorrows came from different mixtures of the five. I’ve learned since then that’s not true. Every place has a taste that’s new to it, and whiskey is the taste of America.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“Defeating the Nazis was in the same category as changing a flat tire: an untidy business that men were expected to know how to do. And not just the men of yore, the supermen of her generation; Randy was expected to know about these things too. If the Axis reconstituted itself tomorrow, Grandma would expect Randy to be suited up behind the controls of a supersonic fighter plane the day after that.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon