This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day.

I have learned it’s best to face down the trouble. Otherwise it will grow into a monster. We don’t have time for monsters.

Research is creating new knowledge.

The Pope doesn't believe in God; Did you ever see a conjurer who believed in Magic ?

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.

When the iron is hot, strike.

Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.

The Warrior sometimes fights with those he loves.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.