Why am I still welling-up at the end of The Amber Spyglass even though it's the fifth time I've read it and I know exactly what's going to happen? The Iron Giant and Grave Of The Fireflies have exactly the same affect, and I've lost count of how many times I've seen them.

My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says that your life depends on your power to master words.

- Arthur Scargill

Some days you wake up and immediately start to worry. Nothing in particular is wrong it's just the suspicion that forces are aligning quietly and there will be trouble.

- Jenny Holzer (via kottke.org).

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Cliff Buxton - “The Dish”

I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

- Isaac Newton