Mark Masters

“how far was a feeling genuine if it did not find expression in an external act?”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Cryptozoic!

“Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“When he woke, she was gone. He lay for a long while looking up at the tent roof, wondering how much he cared. He needed company, although he was never wholly comfortable with it; he needed a woman, although he was never wholly happy with one. He wanted to talk, although he knew most talk was an admission of non-communication.”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Cryptozoic!

“for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein