Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girls. . . . How many have danced to death in slippers …
Quote for Today: M.D. Lachlan
Men who have never had to fight love a weapon. They love to hold it in their hands, feel its balance and speculate on the damage they might do, were …
Quote for Today: Gaston Leroux
They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be …
Quote for Today: Holly Black
People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, …
Creating from Nightmare: H.R. Giger’s Biomechanics and Alien
The arts attempt to convey visions and concepts from one mind to another. Is there value in translating nightmare? A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, and …
Quote for Today: Conrad Aiken
And the mist of snow, as he had foreseen, was still on it – a ghost of snow falling in the bright sunlight, softly and steadily floating and turning and …
Quote for Today: Tom Waits
My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. …
Quote for Today: D.H. Lawrence
It is easy to see why each man kills the things he loves. To know a living thing is to kill it… To try to know a living being is …
Quote for Today: Justin Somper
Well, if pirates are bad, And vampires are worse, Then I pray that as long as I be That though I sing of Vampirates I never one shall see. Yea, …
Quote for Today: Erich Fromm
The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man’s nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become “Golems,” …